different between curator vs curatorially

English

Alternative forms

• curatour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin c?r?tor (“one who has care of a thing, a manager, guardian, trustee”), from c?r?re (“to take care of”), from c?ra (“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

Related terms

Translations

See also

• custodian
• keeper
• manager
• overseer

Further reading

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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin c?r?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ky?ra?.t?r/
• 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
3. liquidator appointed by a judge after bankruptcy

Derived terms

• curatorium

Latin

Alternative forms

• coer?tor

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ku??ra?.tor/, [ku???ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ku?ra.tor/, [ku????t??r]

Etymology 1

From c?r? +? -tor.

Noun

c?r?tor m (genitive c?r?t?ris); 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.

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

c?r?tor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of c?r?

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, 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

Romanian

Etymology

From French curateur, from Latin curator.

Noun

curator m (plural curatori)

1. curator

Declension

English

Etymology

curatorial +? -ly

Adverb

curatorially (comparative more curatorially, superlative most curatorially)

1. In a curatorial way; suggesting or pertaining to a curator.