custos
Meanings
noun
- A warden.
- 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.
- In older forms of musical notation, an indication, at the end of a line of music, of the first note of the next line.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin custōs.
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