curator

English

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

Derived terms

• biocurator
• cocurator
• curatorial
• curatorship
• curatory

 

Related terms

terms related to curator (noun)

• curated
• curative

• curate
• cure

Translations

administrator of a collection

• Arabic: منظم معارض
• Bulgarian: куратор (bg) m (kurator)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 館長／馆长 (zh) (guǎnzhǎng), 馆长 (zh) (guǎnzhǎng), 策展人 (zh) (cèzhǎnrén)

• Crimean Tatar: kurator
• Czech: kurátor (cs) m
• Dutch: conservator (nl) m
• Esperanto: kuratoro
• Finnish: kuraattori (fi)
• French: conservateur (fr) m, conservatrice (fr) f
• Georgian: კურატორი (ḳuraṭori)
• German: Kurator (de) m
• Hebrew: אוצר (he) m (otzer), אוצרת f (otzeret) (at a museum or archive)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: kurátor (hu)
• Irish: coimeádaí m
• Japanese: 学芸員 (gakugeiin)
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• Korean: 큐레이터 (ko) (kyureiteo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kurator m

  Nynorsk: kurator m

• Occitan: conservator (oc) m, conservador (oc) m, curator m, comisari m
• Portuguese: curador (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਪਰਬੰਧਕ (parbandhak), ਵਿਵਸਥਾ ਕਰਨ ਵਾਲਾ (vivsathā karan vālā), ਵਿਵਸਥਾਪਕ m (vivsathāpak)
• Romanian: conservator (ro) m, intendent (ro) m
• Russian: кура́тор (ru) m (kurátor)
• Serbo-Croatian: управитељ m
• Spanish: curador (es) m, comisario (es) m, conservador (es) m
• Tagalog: agsinop
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: küratör (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• custodian
• keeper
• manager
• overseer

Further reading

• “curator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “curator”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cūrātor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkyˈraː.tɔr/

• Audio:

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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

Derived terms

• curatorium

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Latin

Alternative forms

• coerātor

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kuːˈraː.tor/, [kuːˈräːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kuˈra.tor/, [kuˈräːt̪or]

Etymology 1

From cūrō +‎ -tor.

Noun

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cūrātor	cūrātōrēs
Genitive	cūrātōris	cūrātōrum
Dative	cūrātōrī	cūrātōribus
Accusative	cūrātōrem	cūrātōrēs
Ablative	cūrātōre	cūrātōribus
Vocative	cūrātor	cūrātōrēs

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: кура̀тор (kuràtor)
• Catalan: curador
• → Czech: kurátor
• → Dutch: curator
• → English: curator
• → Finnish: kuraattori
• French: curateur
• Galician: curador
• → Georgian: კურატორი (ḳuraṭori)
• → German: Curator, Kurator
• Italian: curatore
• → Macedonian: куратор (kurator)
• → Norwegian:

  → Norwegian Bokmål: kurator

  → Norwegian Nynorsk: kurator

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

(deprecated template usage) cūrātor

1. 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’s 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