Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Cinctus (adjective)

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

CINCTUS, -a, -um. Generally, wearing a girdle, belt, or sash of any kind, and applied to both sexes; to females, who wore a girdle under the breast (Ovid. Met. vi. 59. and CINGULUM, 1.), or, like a zone, round the loins (Curt. iii. 3. and CINGULUM, 2.); to men, who wore a girdle over the tunic (Plaut. Curc. ii. 1. 5. and CINGULUM, 3.); or their swords attached to a waist-band (gladio cinctus, Liv. xxxviii. 21. and CINCTORIUM); and to huntsmen who carried their knives in a waist-band (cultro venatorio cinctus, Suet. Aug. 35. and 19.).

2. Cinctus alte. See ALTICINCTUS.