Custos

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

Music

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

Other

• AB Custos, a Swedish investment company
• Custos, a fictional secret organization in the Japanese film series Towa no Quon
• Custos Messium, an obsolete constellation
• A modern name for the star BE Camelopardalis

Proverbs

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