different between pyx vs custodia

English

Etymology

The noun is derived from Late Middle English pix, pixe (“vessel for holding a host, pyx; hip bone socket, pyxis”) [and other forms], from Late Latin pyxis (“vessel for holding a host”), Latin pyxis (“small box for medicines or toiletries; box holding sample coins for testing; hip bone socket; sailor's compass”), from Koine Greek ????? (puxís), Ancient Greek ?????? (puxís, “box; box or tablet made of boxwood; cylinder”), from ?????? (púxos, “box tree; boxwood”) + -?? (-is, suffix forming feminine nouns).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /p?ks/
• Homophones: picks, pics, pix
• Rhymes: -?ks

Noun

pyx (plural pyxes)

1. (Christianity, also figuratively) A small, usually round container used to hold the host (“consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist”), especially when bringing communion to the sick or others unable to attend Mass.

   Synonym: (rare) pyxis
2. (by extension, rare) A (small) box; a casket, a coffret.

   Synonym: pyxis
3. (chiefly Britain) A box used in a mint as a place to deposit sample coins intended to have the fineness of their metal and their weight tested before the coins are issued to the public.
4. (nautical, obsolete, rare) A compass used by sailors.

Alternative forms

• pix (obsolete, Late Middle English–19th c.)

Translations

Verb

pyx (third-person singular simple present pyxes, present participle pyxing, simple past and past participle pyxed) (transitive)

1. (obsolete) To place (the host) in a pyx.
2. (figuratively) To enclose (something) in a box or other container; specifically, to place (a deceased person's body) in a coffin; to coffin, to encoffin.
3. (chiefly Britain) To deposit (sample coins) in a pyx; (by extension) to test (such coins) for the fineness of metal and weight before a mint issues them to the public.

Alternative forms

• pix (obsolete)

Derived terms

• pyxed (adjective) (obsolete, rare)
• pyxing (noun)

Notes

References

Further reading

• pyx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Trial of the Pyx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Noun

custodia (plural custodias)

1. (rare) pyx (container for the host)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin c??st?dia, derived from c??st?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kus?t?.dja/
• Rhymes: -?dja
• Hyphenation: cu?stò?dia

Noun

custodia f (plural custodie)

1. care
2. custody
3. case (box)

Derived terms

• custodia cautelare

Related terms

References

• custodia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From c??st?s +? -ia.

Pronunciation

• c??st?dia: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ku?s?to?.di.a/, [ku?s??t?o?d?iä] or IPA^(key): /kus?to?.di.a/, [k?s??t?o?d?iä]
• c??st?dia: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kus?to.di.a/, [kus?t???d?i?]

Noun

c??st?dia f (genitive c??st?diae); first declension

1. protection, safekeeping
2. custody, guardianship

Declension

• Root vowel length uncertain due to unclear etymology, lack of inscriptional evidence and conflicting evidence from Romance languages.

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• English: custody
• Galician: Costoia (place name; surname)

Noun

c??st?dia m (genitive c??st?diae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) prisoner

Declension

First-declension noun.

Noun

c??st?di?

1. ablative singular of c??st?dia

References

• custodia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• custodia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• custodia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• custodia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• custodia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• custodia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kus?todja/, [kus?t?o.ð?ja]

Etymology 1

From Latin custodia.

Noun

custodia f (plural custodias)

1. custody
2. safekeeping
3. monstrance (an ornamental, often precious receptacle, especially in the Roman Catholic Church, either open or with a transparent cover, in which the Eucharistic Host is placed for veneration)

Derived terms

• custodiar

Descendants

• ? Tagalog: kustodiya

Etymology 2

Verb

custodia

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of custodiar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of custodiar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of custodiar.

Further reading

• “custodia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.