custos

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin

Noun

custos (plural custodes)

1. (obsolete) A warden.
   • c. 1530 John Rastell, The Pastyme of People: The Cronycles of Dyuers Realmys, London,^[1]

     […] they were commytted to prison & put out of theyr offyces & the Constable of the Towre made custos of the citye.

   • 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 5, p. 148,^[2]

     Mr. Tharp, the Custos of the parish, and several other gentlement, accompanied the corps.

2. (Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a custody of the order.

Derived terms

• custos rotulorum

Translations

superior of a custody

• Czech: kustos m
• French: custode (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Kustos (de) m
• Italian: custode (it) m
• Latin: custos m
• Polish: kustosz (pl) m
• Portuguese: custódio m
• Spanish: custodio (es) m

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”), in which case cognate with Ancient Greek κεύθω (keúthō, “to conceal”), Old English hȳdan (“to hide, conceal, preserve”) (English hide).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːs.toːs/, [ˈkuːs̠t̪oːs̠] or IPA^(key): /ˈkus.toːs/, [ˈkʊs̠t̪oːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkus.tos/, [ˈkust̪os]

Noun

cū̆stōs m (genitive cū̆stōdis); third declension

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

Notes

Root vowel length uncertain due to unclear etymology, lack of inscriptional evidence and conflicting evidence from Romance languages. Greek Κουστώδης suggests a long vowel, though.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cū̆stōs	cū̆stōdēs
Genitive	cū̆stōdis	cū̆stōdum
Dative	cū̆stōdī	cū̆stōdibus
Accusative	cū̆stōdem	cū̆stōdēs
Ablative	cū̆stōde	cū̆stōdibus
Vocative	cū̆stōs	cū̆stōdēs

Derived terms

• cū̆stōdēla
• cū̆stōdia
• cū̆stōdiō

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• custos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Portuguese

Noun

custos

1. plural of custo