The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκεστός“of Aphrodite’s charmed girdle”
- New Latin · derived fromCestoda
- English todaycestode
From New Latin Cestoda, from cestus (“girdle, belt”), from Ancient Greek κεστός (kestós, “of Aphrodite’s charmed girdle”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.