different between conservator vs sentinel

English

Alternative forms

• conservatour (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Noun

conservator (plural conservators)

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

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

   • 1726, William Derham, Physico-Theology

     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.
   • 1839, John Bouvier, Law Dictionary

     The Governor [of Missouri] is […] the conservator of the peace

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.

Derived terms

• conservatorial
• conservator of the peace
• conservatorship

Related terms

• conservatee
• conservation
• conservative

Translations

Further reading

• conservator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch conservateur, from Middle French conservateur, from Old French conservateur, from Latin c?nserv?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?n.z?r?va?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: con?ser?va?tor
• Rhymes: -a?t?r

Noun

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

1. curator (of a museum or a library)

Latin

Etymology

From c?nserv? +? -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon.ser?u?a?.tor/, [kõ?s??r?u?ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.ser?va.tor/, [k?ns?r?v??t??r]

Noun

c?nserv?tor m (genitive c?nserv?t?ris, feminine c?nserv?tr?x); third declension

1. a keeper, preserver, defender

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? Old French: conservateur
  • Anglo-Norman: conservatour
    • ? English: conservator
  • Middle French: conservateur
    • ? Middle Dutch: conservateur
      • Dutch: conservator

Verb

c?nserv?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of c?nserv?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of c?nserv?

References

• 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

Romanian

Etymology

From French conservateur, from Latin conservator.

Adjective

conservator m or n (feminine singular conservatoare, masculine plural conservatori, feminine and neuter plural conservatoare)

1. conservative

Declension

English

Etymology

1570s, from Middle French sentinelle, from Old Italian sentinella (perhaps via a notion of "perceive, watch", compare Italian sentire (“to feel, hear, smell”)), from Latin senti? (“feel, perceive by the senses”). See sense.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?nt?n?l/

Noun

sentinel (plural sentinels)

1. A sentry, watch, or guard.
   • 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     They promised faithfully to bear their confinement with patience, and were very thankful that they had such good usage as to have provisions and light left them; for Friday gave them candles (such as we made ourselves) for their comfort; and they did not know but that he stood sentinel over them at the entrance.

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Empire

     that princes do keep due sentinel

2. (obsolete) A private soldier.
   • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 33:

     “I will not permit the poorest centinel to be treated with injustice.”

3. (computer science) a unique string of characters recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way; a keyword.

4. A sentinel crab.
5. (attributive, medicine, epidemiology) A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).

Translations

Verb

sentinel (third-person singular simple present sentinels, present participle (US) sentineling or (UK) sentinelling, simple past and past participle (US) sentineled or (UK) sentinelled)

1. (transitive) To watch over as a guard.

   He sentineled the north wall.

2. (transitive) To post as guard.

   He sentineled him on the north wall.

3. (transitive) To post a guard for.

   He sentineled the north wall with just one man.

   • 1873, Harper's New Monthly Magazine (volume 46, page 562)

     The old-fashioned stoop, with its suggestive benches on either side, lay solitary and silent in the moonlight; the garden path, weedily overgrown since father's death, and sentineled here and there with ragged hollyhock, lay quiet and dew-laden […]

Translations

Anagrams

• lenients