custos

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin custōs.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌ.stɒs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌˌstɑs/, /-ˌstoʊs/

Noun

custos (plural custodes)

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

     […] 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:

     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.
3. (music, historical) In older forms of musical notation, an indication, at the end of a line of music, of the first note of the next line.

Derived terms

• custos regni
• custos rotulorum

Translations

superior of a custody

Czech: kustos m French: custode (fr) m German: Kustos (de) m Italian: custode (it) m Latin: custos m Polish: kustosz (pl) m Portuguese: custódio (pt) m Spanish: custodio (es) m

Anagrams

• costus, SCOTUS, Scotus, scouts, Scouts