custos

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

custos (plural custodes)

1. (obsolete) A warden.

Derived terms

• custos rotulorum

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for custos in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• SCOTUS, Scouts, costus, scouts

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Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewdʰ- (“to cover, wrap, encase”), from *(s)kew- (“to cover, hide”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κεύθω (keúthō, “to conceal”), Old English hȳdan (“to hide, conceal, preserve”) (English hide).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːs.toːs/

Noun

cūstōs m (genitive cūstōdis); third declension

1. A guard, protector
2. A guardian, tutor
3. A jailer
4. A keeper, custodian

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cūstōs	custōdēs
genitive	custōdis	custōdum
dative	custōdī	custōdibus
accusative	custōdem	custōdēs
ablative	custōde	custōdibus
vocative	cūstōs	custōdēs

Derived terms

• cūstōdēla
• cūstōdia
• cūstōdiō

References

• custos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• custos in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• custos in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• custos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Portuguese

Noun

custos

1. plural of custo