curator

Alternative forms

• curatour (obsolete)

Etymology

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

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.
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.

Further reading

• curator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• curator in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cūrātor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkyˈraː.tɔr/

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• 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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kuːˈraː.tor/, [kuːˈraː.tɔr]

Etymology 1

From cūrō +‎ -tor.

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

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, 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