I was looking up a few of the funkie guild names I have see around and noticed several guilds use "Cestus" in part of their name. Now when I look this up in the Latin dictionary the result is this:
Cestus
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. ces·ti (-t)
A woman's belt or girdle, especially as worn in ancient Greece.
Is there a alternate meaning to this word I'm not finding?
Cestus is a derivation off of caestus, -us masc, a noun coming from the verb caedo -ere (to strike). Was used originally to refer to gauntlets for boxers. The 'kay' sound was dropped to 'kes' as it evolved into cestus, to refer to gauntlets of any time, armored fists, spiked fists, etc. In terms of etymology though, I think that caestus became cestus before it was adopted into other languages, and was a homonym with cestus cesti (the girdle). It wasn't uncommon for there to be homonyms in latin, but distinguished by declinesion and conjugation.
That's not quite accurate. If you read the Oxyrihyonchus Papyri, written by Philostratus and translated by Nimispaucci, you'll note that caestus never evolved into cestus and that the phrase "Cum grano salis" is the more accurate origin for the term "Cestus".*
