different between chaplain vs curate

English

Etymology

From Middle English chapeleyn, from Old French chapelain, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin cappell?nus, from cappella. Doublet of capelin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?æp.l?n/

Noun

chaplain (plural chaplains)

1. A member of a religious body (often, but not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to give pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.
2. A person without religious affiliation who carries out similar duties in a secular context.

Derived terms

• chaplaincy
• college chaplain
• domestic chaplain
• football chaplain
• hospital chaplain
• lay chaplain
• military chaplain
• naval chaplain
• prison chaplain
• school chaplain
• sports chaplain
• street chaplain

Translations

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Medieval Latin c?r?tus, from Latin c?r?. Doublet of curato and curé.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kj????t/, /-??t/
• (General American) enPR: kjo?o?r?t, IPA^(key): /?kj???t/

Noun

curate (plural curates)

1. An assistant rector or vicar.
2. A parish priest.

Derived terms

• curate's egg

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from curator.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kj????e?t/
• (General American) enPR: kjo?o-r?t?, kjo?o?r?t, IPA^(key): /kj???e?t/, /?kj??e?t/

Verb

curate (third-person singular simple present curates, present participle curating, simple past and past participle curated)

1. (transitive) To act as a curator for.

   She curated the traveling exhibition.

   They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.

2. (transitive) To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
3. (intransitive) To work or act as a curator.

   Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.

Derived terms

• curated

Translations

See also

• curate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• acture, acuter, cauter

Italian

Verb

curate

1. inflection of curare:
   1. second-person plural present
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• teucra

Latin

Verb

c?r?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of c?r?

References

• curate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• curate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette