different between custodian vs chaperon

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin *cust?di?nus (“the office of a cust?dia”), implied in cust?di?n?tus, from Latin cust?dia (“a keeping, watch, guard, prison”), from cust?s (“a keeper, watchman, guard”).

Noun

custodian (plural custodians)

1. A person entrusted with the custody or care of something or someone; a caretaker or keeper.

2. (US, Canada) a janitor; a cleaner

Derived terms

• custodianship

Related terms

• custodial
• custody

Translations

Further reading

• custodian in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• custodian in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• custodian at OneLook Dictionary Search

Spanish

Verb

custodian

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of custodiar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of custodiar.

English

Alternative forms

• chaperone

Etymology

From French chaperon (“hood”), from Middle French, "head covering", from Old French chape

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??æ.p???o?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??æ.p?????n/

Noun

chaperon (plural chaperons)

1. An adult who accompanies or supervises one or more young, unmarried men or women during social occasions, usually with the specific intent of preventing some types of social or sexual interactions or illegal behavior.
2. A type of hood, often ornamental or official, with an attached cape and a tail, later worn as a hat with the face hole put over the top of the head instead.
   • August 30 1632, James Howell, "To the Right Honourable the Lord Mohun" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

     His head and face cover'd with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through.

3. A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

Translations

Verb

chaperon (third-person singular simple present chaperons, present participle chaperoning, simple past and past participle chaperoned)

1. to accompany, to escort
2. to mother

Translations

Anagrams

• Cape Horn, canephor, car phone, carphone

French

Etymology

From Old French, from chape (“head covering”) as the women who acted as chaperones wore head coverings. Equivalent to chape +? -eron. More at English cap, cape

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.p???/

Noun

chaperon m (plural chaperons)

1. chaperon

Derived terms

• chaperonnage
• chaperonner
• chaperonnier
• Petit Chaperon rouge

Further reading

• “chaperon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

From chape

Noun

chaperon m (oblique plural chaperons, nominative singular chaperons, nominative plural chaperon)

1. a hairstyle popular in the Middle Ages
2. headscarf for a woman
3. (falconry) hood for a bird of prey
4. type of sailing vessel