title: Custos
text: # 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
  
  ## Other
  
  * AB Custos, a Swedish investment company
  * Custos, a fictional secret organization in the Japanese film series Towa no Quon
  
  ## Music
  
  * Custos, a symbol which indicates the pitch of the next note on the next line - see Mensural notation#Custos
  
  ## Proverbs
  
  The nominative and accusative plural form custodes is used in the proverbial phrase Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?, "Who has custody of the custodians?".
  
  