curator

== English == === 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 === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kjʊəˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /kjʊəˈɹeɪtɚ/, [kjʊəˈɹeɪɾɚ] (Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /kjʊəˈɹæɪtə(ɹ)/, [kjʊəˈɹæɪɾə(ɹ)] Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ) === Noun === curator (plural curators) A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo. One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee. A member of a curatorium, a board for electing university professors, etc. A person or entity who controls, manages, or oversees another. (cricket) A groundsman who looks after a cricket field. ==== 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. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “curator”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin cūrātor. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌkyˈraː.tɔr/ Hyphenation: cu‧ra‧tor === Noun === curator m (plural curatoren, diminutive curatortje n) curator, one who manages a collection curator, one who manages an estate liquidator appointed by a judge after bankruptcy ==== Derived terms ==== curatorium ==== Descendants ==== → Indonesian: kurator == Latin == === Alternative forms === coerātor === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kuːˈraː.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kuˈraː.tor] === Etymology 1 === From cūrō + -tor. ==== Noun ==== cūrātor m (genitive cūrātōris); third declension who pays heed about the state of an object, warden, overseer, watchman, lookout who procures an affair for somebody, agent, commissionary specifically, who procures patrimonial matters of one who has been deemed incapable to procure them himself (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 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, 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) curator ==== Declension ==== == Swedish == === Noun === curator c an exhibitions curator (person organizing art exhibitions) Synonym: kurator ==== Declension ==== === References === “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)