curate

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Medieval Latin cūrātus, from Latin cūrō. Doublet of curato and curé.

noun

1. An assistant rector or vicar.
2. A parish priest.
3. (Ireland) An assistant barman.

Etymology 2

Back-formation from curator.

verb

1. (transitive) To act as a curator for.
   She curated the traveling exhibition.
   They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.
2. (by extension, transitive) To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
   What I love about DVRs is that they really allow you to curate your experience of television. May 16, 2007, “TV Networks Woo Advertisers with Fall Line-Up”, in NPR_TalkNation
   During the past five years I had the good fortune to be editor of Poetry Northwest. The magazine's mission includes curating a dialogue between poetry, the other arts, and civic life. 2010 May, David Biespiel, “This Land Is Our Land”, in Poetry, volume 196, number 2, pages 151–158
   To grasp how this all works, think of the concepts of editing and curating, adopted from publishing and art but now used constantly in the fashion world to imply judgment, taste and discernment. November 28, 2010, Laura Compton, “Shopping sites redefine fashion”, in San Francisco Chronicle, Style, page G1
   From there, click the Notifications tab and scroll down to Groups. This will bring up a page that allows you to curate what sort of Group-related activity results in e-mail alerts. 2011 February, Seth Porges, “Digital Clinic”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 188, number 2, page 105
   Sometimes, you just want to shop for the pure joy of looking at cool things. And the app for Fab, a curated shopping site, is just the place to do that. June 10, 2012, “TechBits: Fab lets you shop, if not sort”, in Washington Post
   The line between reporter and reader will blur as a growing number of people create, curate, and circulate content. 2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 3, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company
   Contemporary curating has become an absurdity. Outfits are curated. Salads are curated. Twitter feeds are curated. Bennington College in Vermont invites prospective students to curate their applications. 2015-04-18, David Balzer, “‘Reading lists, outfits, even salads are curated – it’s absurd’”, in The Guardian
   Unlike some top American actors, who carefully curate heroic roles, the British actor relishes swimming in moral murkiness, “the gray areas where you can’t easily put a definition.” 2022-10-22, Maureen Dowd, “Ralph Fiennes, Master of Monsters”, in The New York Times
3. (intransitive) To work or act as a curator.
   Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.

Etymology 3

cur(ium) + -ate

noun

1. (inorganic chemistry) An oxyanion of curium; any salt containing such an anion.