custodia

custodia (plural custodias)

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

custodia f (plural custodie)

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

• custodia cautelare
• custodire

From cū̆stos +‎ -ia.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kusˈtoː.di.a/, [kʊsˈtoː.di.a]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kuːsˈtoː.di.a/

cū̆stōdia f (genitive cū̆stōdiae); first declension

1. protection, safekeeping
2. custody, guardianship

Root vowel length uncertain due to unclear etymology, lack of inscriptional evidence and conflicting evidence from Romance languages.

First declension.

• English: custody
• Galician: Costoia (place name; surname)

cūstōdiā

1. ablative singular of cū̆stōdia

cū̆stōdia m (genitive cū̆stōdiae); first declension

1. (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)

• 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, 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

• IPA^(key): /kusˈtodja/, [kusˈt̪oðja]

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)

• custodiar

custodia

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of custodiar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of custodiar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of custodiar.