custodia

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See also: custòdia, custódia, and custodiá

English

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Noun

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custodia (plural custodias)

  1. (rare) pyx (container for the host)

Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin custōdia, a noun derived from custōs (guardian).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kuˈstɔ.dja/
  • Rhymes: -ɔdja
  • Hyphenation: cu‧stò‧dia

Noun

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custodia f (plural custodie)

  1. care
  2. custody
  3. case (box)

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • custodia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

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Etymology

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From custōd- (guardian) +‎ -ia.

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Noun

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custōdia f (genitive custōdiae); first declension

  1. protection, safekeeping
  2. custody, guardianship
  3. (Late Latin) prisoner
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Acts.27.42:
      Militum autem consilium fuit ut custodias occiderent, ne quis cum enatasset, effugeret.
      And the soldiers' counsel was, that they should kill the prisoners, lest any of them, swimming out, should escape. (Douay-Rheims)

Declension

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Descendants

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References

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Further reading

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  • custodia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • custodia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • custodia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • custodia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to put some one in irons, chains: in vincula (custodiam) dare aliquem
    • to station posts, pickets, at intervals: praesidia, custodias disponere
    • to keep watch on the rampart: custodias agere in vallo
    • to keep the coast and harbours in a state of blockade: litora ac portus custodia clausos tenere
  • custodia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • custodia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

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Verb

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custodia

  1. inflection of custodiar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kusˈtodja/ [kusˈt̪o.ð̞ja]
  • Rhymes: -odja
  • Syllabification: cus‧to‧dia

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin custōdia.

Noun

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custodia f (plural custodias)

  1. custody
  2. safekeeping
  3. monstrance (an ornamental, often precious receptacle, especially in the Roman Catholic Church, either open or with a transparent cover, in which the Eucharistic Host is placed for veneration)
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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custodia

  1. inflection of custodiar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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