different between defender vs curator

English

Alternative forms

• defendor, defendour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman defendour, from Old French defendeor

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??f?nd?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Noun

defender (plural defenders)

1. someone who defends people or property
2. (sports) one of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring
3. a fighter who seeks to repel an attack
4. (law, rare) a lawyer who represents defendants, especially a public defender; a defense attorney (US) or defence counsel (UK)
5. (Scotland, law) a defendant in a civil action

Translations

Anagrams

• fendered, redefend

Interlingua

Verb

defender

1. to defend

Conjugation

Ladino

Etymology

From Latin d?fend?, d?fendere.

Verb

defender (Latin spelling)

1. to prohibit

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese defender, from Latin d?fendere, present active infinitive of d?fend?.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /d?.f?.?de?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.f?.?de(?)/

Verb

defender (first-person singular present indicative defendo, past participle defendido)

1. to defend (repel an attack)

   Synonyms: (archaic) defensar, proteger

2. to defend (represent as a legal professional)
3. (rhetoric) to defend
4. to support (to back a cause, party etc.)

   Synonym: ser a favor de

5. (sports) to defend (to prevent the opponent from scoring)
6. (sports, intransitive) to play in defense
7. (higher education) to formally present a dissertation, thesis or project
8. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of defender
9. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of defender
10. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of defender
11. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of defender

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:defender.

Related terms

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin d?fendere, present active infinitive of d?fend?. Cognate with English defend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /defen?de?/, [d?e.f?n??d?e?]

Verb

defender (first-person singular present defiendo, first-person singular preterite defendí, past participle defendido)

1. to defend, to protect, to hold down (contra (“against”), de (“from”))

   Synonym: proteger

2. to stand up for, to stick up for
3. to uphold

4. to prohibit

   Synonym: prohibir

5. to claim
6. (reflexive) to fight back
7. (reflexive) to defend oneself, to protect oneself
8. (reflexive) to stand up for oneself, to stick up for oneself
9. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to fend off (+ de)
10. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to get by

Conjugation

Derived terms

• autodefenderse

Related terms

Further reading

• “defender” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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