custòdia

Learned borrowing from Latin custōdia. Doublet of Costoja, an inherited form.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kusˈtɔ.ði.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kusˈtɔ.ði.a]

custòdia f (plural custòdies)

1. female equivalent of custodi (“caretaker”)
2. (uncountable) custody
3. (Roman Catholicism) monstrance

   Synonym: ostensori

4. (Roman Catholicism) custody (area under the authority of a custos)

• custodi
• custodiar

• “custòdia”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007