# conservator
## English
### Alternative forms

* conservatour (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English conservatour, from Anglo-Norman conservatour, from Latin cōnservātor (“one who conserves”), agent noun from cōnservō (“I preserve”).

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /kənˈsɝ.və.tɚ/, [kənˈsɝ.və.ɾɚ]
* Audio (General American):(file)

### Noun

conservator (plural conservators)
* One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
** 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)
    Chlouveraki, a tenacious archaeological conservator, has salvaged antiquities all over the Middle East.
** 1726, William Derham, Physico-Theology:the great Creator and Conservator of the world
* (law) A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.
** 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:The lords of the secret council were likewise made conservators of the peace of the two kingdoms.
** 1839, John Bouvier, Law Dictionary:The Governor [of Missouri] is […] the conservator of the peace
* An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.
* (Roman Catholicism) A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process.
* A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.

#### Derived terms

* conservatorial
* conservator of the peace
* conservatorship
* subconservator

#### Related terms

* conservatee
* conservation
* conservative

#### Further reading

* conservator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch conservateur, from Middle French conservateur, from Old French conservateur, from Latin cōnservātor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌkɔn.zɛrˈvaː.tɔr/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: con‧ser‧va‧tor
* Rhymes: -aːtɔr

### Noun

conservator m (plural conservators or conservatoren, diminutive conservatortje n, feminine conservatrice)
* curator (of a museum or a library)

## Latin
### Etymology

From cōnservō +‎ -tor.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kon.serˈu̯aː.tor/, [kõːs̠ɛrˈu̯äːt̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kon.serˈva.tor/, [konserˈväːt̪or]

### Noun

cōnservātor m (genitive cōnservātōris, feminine cōnservātrīx); third declension
* keeper, preserver, defender

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* → Old French: conservateur
** Anglo-Norman: conservatour
*** → English: conservator
** Middle French: conservateur
*** → Middle Dutch: conservateur
**** Dutch: conservator

### Verb

cōnservātor
* second/third-person singular future passive imperative of cōnservō

### References

* “conservator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “conservator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* conservator 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)
* conservator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French conservateur, from Latin cōnservātor. Equivalent to conserva +‎ -tor.

### Adjective

conservator m or n (feminine singular conservatoare, masculine plural conservatori, feminine and neuter plural conservatoare)
* conservative