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7-letter words (1 found)

CURATOR,

6-letter words (5 found)

CARROT,CRATUR,CUATRO,TROCAR,TURACO,

5-letter words (8 found)

ACTOR,COURT,COUTA,CROUT,CRUOR,CRURA,CURAT,TAROC,

4-letter words (29 found)

ACRO,ARCO,ATOC,AUTO,CARR,CART,COAT,COUR,CURR,CURT,OCTA,ORCA,ORRA,OUTA,RATO,RATU,ROAR,RORT,ROTA,ROUT,TACO,TARO,TORA,TORC,TORR,TOUR,TROU,TURR,URAO,

3-letter words (29 found)

ACT,ARC,ART,CAR,CAT,COR,COT,CRU,CUR,CUT,OAR,OAT,OCA,ORA,ORC,ORT,OUR,OUT,RAT,ROC,ROT,RUC,RUT,TAO,TAR,TAU,TOC,TOR,UTA,

2-letter words (8 found)

AR,AT,OR,OU,TA,TO,UR,UT,

You can make 80 words from curator according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of curator

curator

Alternative forms

  • curatour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin cūrātor (“one who has care of a thing, a manager, guardian, trustee”), from cūrāre (“to take care of”), from cūra (“care, heed, attention, anxiety, grief”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kjʊəˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

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.
  4. A person or entity who controls, manages, or oversees another.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

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.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cūrātor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌkyˈraː.tɔr/
  • 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

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: kurator

Latin

Alternative forms

  • coerātor

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) 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.

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French curateur, from Latin curator.

Noun

curator m (plural curatori)

  1. curator

Declension

Swedish

Noun

curator c

  1. an exhibitions curator (person organizing art exhibitions)
    Synonym: kurator

Declension

References

  • curator in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • curator in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • curator in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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