curator

English

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Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• curatour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin cūrātor (“one who has care of a thing, a manager, guardian, trustee”), from cūrāre (“to take care of”), from cūra (“care, heed, attention, anxiety, grief”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kjʊəˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

curator (plural curators)

1. A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
   • 1975, Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word:

     The Club became like town meetings for the entire New York art scene, attracting dealers, collectors, uptown curators like Alfred Barr, critics, and just about any other culturati who could wrangle their way in.

   • 2003, Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 3:

     Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery.

2. One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.
3. A member of a curatorium, a board for electing university professors, etc.
4. A person or entity who controls, manages, or oversees another.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• custodian
• keeper
• manager
• overseer

Further reading

• “curator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “curator”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cūrātor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkyˈraː.tɔr/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: cu‧ra‧tor

Noun

curator m (plural curatoren, diminutive curatortje n)

1. curator, one who manages a collection
2. curator, one who manages an estate
3. liquidator appointed by a judge after bankruptcy

Derived terms

• curatorium

Descendants

• → Indonesian: kurator

Latin

Alternative forms

• coerātor

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kuːˈraː.tor/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kuˈra.tor/,

Etymology 1

From cūrō +‎ -tor.

Noun

cūrātor m (genitive cūrātōris); third declension

1. who pays heed about the state of an object, warden, overseer, watchman, lookout
2. who procures an affair for somebody, agent, commissionary
3. specifically, who procures patrimonial matters of one who has been deemed incapable to procure them himself
4. (New Latin, Germany) the regulatory supervisor over a university

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cūrātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of cūrō

References

• “curator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• curator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• curator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “curator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “curator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French curateur, from Latin curator.

Noun

curator m (plural curatori)

1. curator

Declension

Swedish

Noun

curator c

1. an exhibitions curator (person organizing art exhibitions)

   Synonym: kurator

Declension

References

• curator in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• curator in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• curator in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)