curator

• curatour (obsolete)

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”).

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.
3. A member of a curatorium, a board for electing university professors etc.

• custodian
• keeper
• manager
• overseer

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

Borrowed from Latin cūrātor.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkyˈraː.tɔr/

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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

• curatorium

• coerātor

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

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.

• → Bulgarian: кура̀тор (kuràtor)
• → Dutch: curator
• → Czech: kurátor
• → English: curator
• → Finnish: kuraattori
• → Georgian: კურატორი (ḳuraṭori)
• → German: Curator, Kurator
• → Macedonian: куратор (kurator)
• → Norwegian:

  → Norwegian Bokmål: kurator

  → Norwegian Nynorsk: kurator

• → Russian: кура́тор (kurátor)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kùrātor, ку̀ра̄тор
• → Polish: kurator
• → Portuguese: curador
• → Spanish: curador
• → Crimean Tatar: kurator

See the etymology of the main entry.

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’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