custodia

custodia (plural custodias)

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

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

• IPA^(key): /kusˈtɔ.dja/
• Rhymes: -ɔdja
• Hyphenation: cu‧stò‧dia

custodia f (plural custodie)

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

• custodia cautelare

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

From custōd- (“guardian”) +‎ -ia.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʊsˈtoː.di.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kusˈtɔː.di.a]

custōdia f (genitive custōdiae); first declension

1. protection, safekeeping
2. custody, guardianship
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.19:

     Quid quod tū tē ipse in cūstōdiam dedistī, quod vītandae suspīciōnis causā ad M. Lepidum tē habitāre velle dīxistī?

     What about the fact that you surrendered yourself into custody, the fact that you said you wanted to live at the house of Manius Lepidus for the sake of avoiding suspicion?

3. (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)

First-declension noun.

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

• “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, 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^[1], 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

custodia

1. inflection of custodiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /kusˈtodja/ [kusˈt̪o.ð̞ja]
• Rhymes: -odja
• Syllabification: cus‧to‧dia

Borrowed from Latin custōdia.

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)

• → Tagalog: kustodya

custodia

1. inflection of custodiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “custodia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025