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custody
English
Etymology
From Latin custodia (“a keeping, watch, guard, prison”), from custos (“a keeper, watchman, guard”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?st?di?/ (Estuary English)
- Homophone: custardy (in some dialects)
Noun
custody (usually uncountable, plural custodies)
- The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
- The court awarded custody to the child's father.
- Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.
- I couldn't pay the bill and now my passport is in custody of the hotel management.
- The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.
- He was mistreated while in police custody.
- (Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a custos within the Order of Friars Minor.
- The Custody of the Holy Land includes the monasteries of Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Jerusalem.
Derived terms
Related terms
- custodial
- custodian
Translations
Further reading
- custody in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- custody in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- custody at OneLook Dictionary Search
Further reading
- Custódia [1], Priberam Dictionary]
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cost
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?st/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?st/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /?k?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Etymology 1
From Middle English costen, from Old French coster, couster (“to cost”), from Medieval Latin c?st?, from Latin c?nst? (“stand together”).
Verb
cost (third-person singular simple present costs, present participle costing, simple past and past participle cost or costed)
- To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
- Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].
- To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
- To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- 1977, Star Wars
- LUKE: "That little droid is going to cost me a lot of trouble."
- 1977, Star Wars
- To calculate or estimate a price.
Usage notes
The past tense and past participle is cost in the sense of "this computer cost me £600", but costed in the sense of 'calculated', "the project was costed at $1 million."
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English cost, coust, from costen (“to cost”), from the same source as above.
Noun
cost (countable and uncountable, plural costs)
- Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
- A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English cost, from Old English cost (“option, choice, possibility, manner, way, condition”), from Old Norse kostr (“choice, opportunity, chance, condition, state, quality”), from Proto-Germanic *kustuz (“choice, trial”) (or Proto-Germanic *kustiz (“choice, trial”)), from Proto-Indo-European *?éwstus (“to enjoy, taste”).
Cognate with Icelandic kostur, German dialectal Kust (“taste, flavour”), Dutch kust (“choice, choosing”), North Frisian kest (“choice, estimation, virtue”), West Frisian kêst (“article of law, statute”), Old English cyst (“free-will, choice, election, the best of anything, the choicest, picked host, moral excellence, virtue, goodness, generosity, munificence”), Latin gustus (“taste”). Related to choose. Doublet of gusto.
Noun
cost (plural costs)
- (obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
- Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
Derived terms
- at all costs
Related terms
- costen
- costning
- needs-cost
Etymology 4
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French coste, from Latin costa. Doublet of coast and cuesta.
Noun
cost (plural costs)
- (obsolete) A rib; a side.
- betwixt the costs of a ship
- (heraldry) A cottise.
Anagrams
- C.O.T.S., COTS, CSTO, CTOs, OCTS, OSTC, Scot, Scot., TOCs, cots, scot
Catalan
Noun
cost m (plural costs or costos)
- cost
Derived terms
- preu de cost
Related terms
- costar
Manx
Noun
cost m (genitive singular cost, plural costyn)
- charge (monetary)
Derived terms
- costal
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *kust-, from Proto-Indo-European *?ews- (“to choose”).
Akin to Old Saxon kost?n (“to try, tempt”), Old High German kost?n (“to taste, test, try by tasting”) (German kosten), Icelandic kosta (“to try, tempt”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (kustus, “test”), Old English cystan (“to spend, get the value of, procure”), Old English cyst (“proof, test, trial; choice”), ??osan (“to choose”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kost/
Noun
cost m
- option, choice; possibility
- condition, manner, way
Declension
Adjective
cost
- chosen, choice
- tried, proven; excellent
Declension
Old French
Etymology
From Latin constare, present infinitive of consto (“I stand firm (at a price)”).
Noun
cost m (oblique plural coz or cotz, nominative singular coz or cotz, nominative plural cost)
- cost; financial outlay
Related terms
- coster
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kost]
Etymology 1
Verb
cost
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of costa
Etymology 2
Back-formation from costa
Noun
cost n (uncountable)
- cost
Declension
Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed from English cost.
Noun
cost m or f (plural costau)
- cost
- expense
Mutation
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