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curator

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Etymology edit

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”).

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  • IPA(key): /kjʊəˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun edit

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.

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin cūrātor.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˌkyˈraː.tɔr/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: cu‧ra‧tor

Noun edit

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

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Descendants edit

  • → Indonesian: kurator

Latin edit

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Etymology 1 edit

From cūrō +‎ -tor.

Noun edit

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 edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cūrātor cūrātōrēs
Genitive cūrātōris cūrātōrum
Dative cūrātōrī cūrātōribus
Accusative cūrātōrem cūrātōrēs
Ablative cūrātōre cūrātōribus
Vocative cūrātor cūrātōrēs
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Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

cūrātor

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

References edit

  • “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 edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French curateur, from Latin curator.

Noun edit

curator m (plural curatori)

  1. curator

Declension edit

Declension of curator
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) curator curatorul (niște) curatori curatorii
genitive/dative (unui) curator curatorului (unor) curatori curatorilor
vocative curatorule curatorilor

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curator c

  1. an exhibitions curator (person organizing art exhibitions)
    Synonym: kurator

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Declension of curator 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative curator curatorn curators -
Genitive curators curatorns curators -

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