# custodia
## English
### Noun

custodia (plural custodias)
* (rare) pyx (container for the host)

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin custōdia, a noun derived from custōs (“guardian”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuˈstɔ.dja/
* Rhymes: -ɔdja
* Hyphenation: cu‧stò‧dia

### Noun

custodia f (plural custodie)
* care
* custody
* case (box)

#### Derived terms

* custodia cautelare

#### Related terms

* custode
* custodire

### Further reading

* custodia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Etymology

From custōd- (“guardian”) +‎ -ia.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kusˈtoː.di.a/, [kʊs̠ˈt̪oːd̪iä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kusˈto.di.a/, [kusˈt̪ɔːd̪iä]

### Noun

custōdia f (genitive custōdiae); first declension
* protection, safekeeping
* custody, guardianship
* (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)

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Inherited (as toponyms or surnames)
** Catalan: Costoja
** Occitan: Costoja
*** → French: Coustouge
** Old Galician-Portuguese:
*** Galician: Costoia
*** Portuguese: Custóias
** Venetan: Custoxa
*** → Italian: Custoza
* Borrowed:
** → Catalan: custòdia
** → English: custody
** → Greek: κουστωδία (koustodía)
** → Italian: custodia
** → Middle French: custode
*** French: custode (rare)
** → Old Occitan: custodia
*** Occitan: custodia
** → Portuguese: custódia
** → Romanian: custodie
** → Spanish: custodia

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “custodia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1595

### Further reading

* “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

## Portuguese
### Verb

custodia
* inflection of custodiar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kusˈtodja/ [kusˈt̪o.ð̞ja]
* Rhymes: -odja
* Syllabification: cus‧to‧dia

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin custōdia.

#### Noun

custodia f (plural custodias)
* custody
* safekeeping
* 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)

##### Derived terms

* custodia compartida
* custodiar

##### Descendants

* → Tagalog: kustodya

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

custodia
* inflection of custodiar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “custodia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10