Dictionary

custos en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /-ˌstoʊs/ (General-American)
• /ˈkʌˌstɑs/ (General-American)
• /ˈkʌ.stɒs/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin custōs.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A warden.
   • Mr. Tharp, the Custos of the parish, and several other gentlement, accompanied the corps. 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 5, p. 148:
   • […] they were commytted to prison & put out of theyr offyces & the Constable of the Towre made custos of the citye. c. 1530, John Rastell, The Pastyme of People: The Cronycles of Dyuers Realmys, London:
2. 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. (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.

Forms

Deriveds

custos regni · custos rotulorum

Translations (8)

fr custode (superior of a custody) · la custos (superior of a custody) · de Kustos (superior of a custody) · es custodio (superior of a custody) · pt custódio (superior of a custody) · cs kustos (superior of a custody) · pl kustosz (superior of a custody) · it custode (superior of a custody)