Custos

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Custos is the Latin word for guard.

Titles

  • Custos rotulorum ("keeper of the rolls"), a civic post in parts of the United Kingdom and in Jamaica
  • Custos (Franciscans), a religious superior or official in the Franciscan Order
  • Custos (Under-sacristan), a Roman Catholic office

Other

  • AB Custos, a Swedish investment company
  • Custos, a fictional secret organization in the Japanese film series Towa no Quon

Music

  • Custos, a symbol which indicates the pitch of the next note on the next line - see Mensural notation#Custos

Proverbs

The nominative and accusative plural form custodes is used in the proverbial phrase Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?, "Who has custody of the custodians?".