Curating

May 21, 2007, 08:19

shufitz

Curating

Is there any relationship between curate the official of a church, and curator the official of a museum?

May 21, 2007, 08:53

arnie

Yes. They both come from the Latin word curare "to take care of". See Online Etymology Dictionary.

Before you ask, the poison curare has no connection. According to the same source it's from Spanish or Portuguese and is

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a corruption of the name in the Carib language of the Macusi Indians of Guyana, wurali or wurari, which had a sort of click sound at the beginning, and is said to mean "he to whom it comes falls."

Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.