Custos
/ˈkʌ.stɒs/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A warden. obsolete
"[…] they were commytted to prison & put out of theyr offyces & the Constable of the Towre made custos of the citye."
- 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 In older forms of musical notation, an indication, at the end of a line of music, of the first note of the next line. historical
Example
More examples"[…] they were commytted to prison & put out of theyr offyces & the Constable of the Towre made custos of the citye."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin custōs.