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6-letter words (3 found)

COSTUS,CUSTOS,SCOUTS,

5-letter words (8 found)

COSTS,CUSSO,OUSTS,SCOTS,SCOUT,SCUTS,SOUCT,SOUTS,

4-letter words (15 found)

COSS,COST,COTS,CUSS,CUTS,OUST,OUTS,SCOT,SCUT,SOCS,SOTS,SOUS,SOUT,TOCS,TOSS,

3-letter words (12 found)

COS,COT,CUT,OUS,OUT,SOC,SOS,SOT,SOU,SUS,TOC,UTS,

2-letter words (7 found)

OS,OU,SO,ST,TO,US,UT,

You can make 45 words from custos according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of custos

custos

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin custōs.

Noun

custos (plural custodes)

  1. (obsolete) A warden.
  2. (Roman Catholicism) 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. (music, 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.

Derived terms

  • custos regni
  • custos rotulorum

Translations

Anagrams

  • SCOTUS, Scouts, costus, scouts

Latin

Etymology

Of unclear ultimate origin. Per Nowicki 1978, from a compound *kusto-sd- 'who sits near the hidden/near the treasure', where the first element is cognate to Proto-Germanic *huzdą (“hidden treasure”) (also of uncertain etymology; see more at English hoard and below) and the second element is a reduced form of Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”) But this etymology is disputed.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkus.toːs/, [ˈkʊs̠t̪oːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkus.tos/, [ˈkust̪os]

Noun

custōs m (genitive custōdis); third declension

  1. A guard, protector, watchman
    Synonym: appāritor
  2. A guardian, tutor
  3. A jailer
  4. A keeper, custodian
    Synonyms: dēfēnsor, vindex, praeses, appāritor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Late Latin: custor (see there for further descendants)
  • → English: custos
  • → Finnish: kustos
  • → German: Kustos
  • → Italian: custode
  • → Old French: custode
    • Middle French: custode

References

Further reading

  • “custos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “custos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • custos 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)
  • custos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Noun

custos

  1. plural of custo

Source: wiktionary.org