Borrowed fromMedieval Latincūrātus(“one who has been curated, a curate”), asubstantivation of theperfectpassiveparticiple ofcūrō.Doublet ofcurato andcuré. Equivalent tocure +-ate(noun-forming suffix).
curate (pluralcurates)
- Anassistantrector orvicar.
- Hypernym:cleric
- Coordinate terms:abbé,deacon;canon;priest,reverend,pastor,rector,vicar
- Aparishpriest.
- Hypernym:cleric
- (Ireland) Anassistantbarman.
1904–1907 (date written),James Joyce, “Counterparts”, inDubliners, London:Grant Richards, publishedJune 1914,→OCLC,page107:‘Here, Pat, give us a g.p., like a good fellow.’ Thecurate brought him a glass of plain porter. The man drank it at a gulp and asked for a caraway seed. He put his penny on the counter and, leaving thecurate to grope for it in the gloom, retreated out of the snug as furtively as he had entered it.
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Back-formation fromcurator on the basis of-ate(verb-forming suffix).
curate (third-person singular simple presentcurates,present participlecurating,simple past and past participlecurated)
- (transitive) To act as acurator for.
Shecurated the traveling exhibition.
They carefullycurated the recovered artifacts.
- (by extension, transitive) Toapplyselectivity andtaste to, as a collection of fashion items orweb pages.
2007 May 16, “TV Networks Woo Advertisers with Fall Line-Up”, inNPR_TalkNation:What I love about DVRs is that they really allow you tocurate your experience of television.
2010 May, David Biespiel, “This Land Is Our Land”, inPoetry, volume196, number 2, pages151–158:During the past five years I had the good fortune to be editor of Poetry Northwest. The magazine's mission includescurating a dialogue between poetry, the other arts, and civic life.
2010 November 28, Laura Compton, “Shopping sites redefine fashion”, inSan Francisco Chronicle, Style, page G1:To grasp how this all works, think of the concepts of editing andcurating, adopted from publishing and art but now used constantly in the fashion world to imply judgment, taste and discernment.
2011 February, Seth Porges, “Digital Clinic”, inPopular Mechanics, volume188, number 2, page105:From there, click the Notifications tab and scroll down to Groups. This will bring up a page that allows you tocurate what sort of Group-related activity results in e-mail alerts.
2012 June 10, “TechBits: Fab lets you shop, if not sort”, inWashington Post:Sometimes, you just want to shop for the pure joy of looking at cool things. And the app for Fab, acurated shopping site, is just the place to do that.
2014,Astra Taylor, chapter 3, inThe People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company,→ISBN:The line between reporter and reader will blur as a growing number of people create,curate, and circulate content.
2015 April 18, David Balzer, “‘Reading lists, outfits, even salads are curated – it’s absurd’”, inThe Guardian[1]:Contemporary curating has become an absurdity. Outfits arecurated. Salads arecurated. Twitter feeds arecurated. Bennington College in Vermont invites prospective students tocurate their applications.
2022 October 22,Maureen Dowd, “Ralph Fiennes, Master of Monsters”, inThe New York Times[2]:Unlike some top American actors, who carefullycurate heroic roles, the British actor relishes swimming in moral murkiness, “the gray areas where you can’t easily put a definition.”
- (intransitive) Towork or act as acurator.
Not only does hecurate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.
Fromcur(ium) +-ate.
curate (pluralcurates)
- (inorganic chemistry) Anoxyanion ofcurium; anysalt containing such an anion.
- IPA(key): /kuˈra.te/
- Rhymes:-ate
- Hyphenation:cu‧rà‧te
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curate
- feminineplural ofcurato
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curate
- feminineplural ofcurato
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curate
- inflection ofcurare:
- second-personpluralpresent
- second-personpluralimperative
cūrāte
- second-personpluralpresentactiveimperative ofcūrō
- “curate”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- curate inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
curate
- second-personsingular voseoimperative ofcurar combined withte
