curator

• curatour (obsolete)

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”).

• IPA^(key): /kjʊəˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

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.
5. (cricket) A groundsman who looks after a cricket field.

• custodian
• keeper
• manager
• overseer

• “curator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “curator”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin cūrātor.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkyˈraː.tɔr/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: cu‧ra‧tor

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

• curatorium

• → Indonesian: kurator

• coerātor

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kuːˈraː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kuˈraː.tor]

From cūrō + -tor.

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

Third-declension noun.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cūrātor

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

• “curator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "curator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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

Borrowed from French curateur, from Latin curator.

curator m (plural curatori)

1. curator

curator c

1. an exhibitions curator (person organizing art exhibitions)

   Synonym: kurator

• “curator”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “curator”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “curator”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)