conservator

• conservatour (obsolete)

From Anglo-Norman conservatour, from Latin conservator (“one who conserves”), agent noun from conservo (“I preserve”).

conservator (plural conservators)

1. One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)

     Chlouveraki, a tenacious archaeological conservator, has salvaged antiquities all over the Middle East.

   • Derham

     the great Creator and Conservator of the world

2. (law) A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.
   • Clarendon

     The lords of the secret council were likewise made conservators of the peace of the two kingdoms.

   • Bouvier

     the conservator of the estate of an idiot

3. An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.
4. (Roman Catholicism) A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process.
5. A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.

• conservatorial
• conservator of the peace
• conservatorship

• conservatee
• conservation
• conservative

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conservator m (plural conservators or conservatoren, diminutive conservatortje n)

1. curator (of a museum or a library)

From cōnservō +‎ -tor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon.serˈwaː.tor/, [kõː.sɛrˈwaː.tɔr]

cōnservātor m (genitive cōnservātōris); third declension

1. a keeper, preserver, defender

Third declension.

cōnservātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of cōnservō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of cōnservō

• conservator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conservator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conservator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• conservator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette