custody Copy link Outline I. Keeping, guardingII. Confinement, imprisonment • custody: I. Keeping, guarding: custōdia, tūtēla, praesĭdium: v. guard. II. Confinement, imprisonment: vincŭla, orum (lit. chains), carcer (prison): v. imprisonment. Phr.: free c. (the mildest form of confinement), libera custodia, Liv.: Sall. (who has the pl. in liberis custodiis, where several persons are concerned: Cat. 47).