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[MeinPanzer]

From Suetonius's Life of Julius Caesar. The 1913 Loeb English version:

45.3
.....and always had a girdle over it,....

.....et quidem fluxiore cinctura....

Curious cinctura is translated as girdle when it also means belt.


cinctur.a N 1 1 NOM S F
cinctur.a N 1 1 VOC S F
cinctur.a N 1 1 ABL S F
cinctura, cincturae N F [XXXEO] uncommon
belt; girdle; means of girding;

cinct.ura VPAR 3 1 NOM S F FUT ACTIVE PPL
cinct.ura VPAR 3 1 VOC S F FUT ACTIVE PPL
cinct.ura VPAR 3 1 ABL S F FUT ACTIVE PPL
cinct.ura VPAR 3 1 NOM P N FUT ACTIVE PPL
cinct.ura VPAR 3 1 VOC P N FUT ACTIVE PPL
cinct.ura VPAR 3 1 ACC P N FUT ACTIVE PPL
cingo, cingere, cinxi, cinctus V TRANS [XXXAO]
surround/encircle/ring; enclose; beleaguer; accompany; gird, equip; ring (tree)

I think in this case because the translation is almost a century old now it's just an archaic term for what a newer translation would call a belt.