custodia

See also: custòdia, custódia, and custodiá

English

Noun

custodia (plural custodias)

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

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

custodia f (plural custodie)

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

Derived terms

• custodia cautelare

Related terms

• custode
• custodire

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From custōd- (“guardian”) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʊsˈtoː.di.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kusˈt̪ɔː.d̪i.a]

Noun

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

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	custōdia	custōdiae
genitive	custōdiae	custōdiārum
dative	custōdiae	custōdiīs
accusative	custōdiam	custōdiās
ablative	custōdiā	custōdiīs
vocative	custōdia	custōdiae

Descendants

• Inherited (as toponyms or surnames)
  • Catalan: Costoja
  • Occitan: Costoja
    • → French: Coustouge
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: Costoia
    • Portuguese: Custóias
  • Venetan: Custoxa
    • → Italian: Custoza
• Borrowed:
  • → Catalan: custòdia
  • → English: custody
  • → Greek: κουστωδία (koustodía)
  • → Italian: custodia
  • → Middle French: custode
    • French: custode (rare)
  • → Old Occitan: custodia
    • Occitan: custodia
  • → Portuguese: custódia
  • → Romanian: custodie
  • → Spanish: custodia

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “custodia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1595

Further reading

• “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, 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

Verb

custodia

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin custōdia.

Noun

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)

Derived terms

• custodia compartida
• custodiar

Descendants

• → Tagalog: kustodya

Etymology 2

Verb

custodia

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

Further reading

• “custodia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024