custor

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Latin

Alternative forms

qustor (alternative spelling)

Etymology

Reflection of custōs based on the agentive suffix -tor.

Noun

custor m (genitive custōris); third declension (Late Latin)^[1]

guardian, protector

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	custor	custōrēs
genitive	custōris	custōrum
dative	custōrī	custōribus
accusative	custōrem	custōrēs
ablative	custōre	custōribus
vocative	custor	custōrēs

Descendants

Old French: costor (nominative costre)
- Middle French: coustre, coultre, cousteur (all with silent ⟨s⟩ or ⟨l⟩)
  - French: coûtre (historical or dialectal)
- → Middle Dutch: coster
  - Dutch: koster
- →? Romansch: caluster, coluoster, caluoster (first syllable perhaps influenced by claustrum)
→ Proto-West Germanic: *kustārī (see desc)

References

^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cŭstos”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1595

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