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    Custos

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    Custos is the Latin word for guard.

    Titles

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    • 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

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

    Music

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    • Custos, the latin word for a Direct (music symbol)

    Proverbs

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

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