Curator
/kjʊəˈreɪtər/noun
A person who manages, oversees, or cares for a collection, museum, or other body of items.
Did you know?Curator comes from Latin *curator*, from *curare* meaning “to care for,” and the same root gave English words tied to care, cure, and cure-like protection rather than anything occult.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*ǵeh₃-
“to be concerned with, to take care of”
Latin
Latin
curare
“to care for, attend to, look after”
Latin
Latin
curator
“a caretaker, overseer, manager”
Middle English
English
curatour
“an overseer or guardian”
Modern English
English
curator
“a keeper or manager of a collection, especially in a museum”