Having assumed a new significance in the digital age, the word curate now often appears as a participle adjective (e.g. curated content). The concept’s application in online contexts has significantly boosted the frequency of nouns curator and curation. All these words have however been knocking about in the English language for a very long time. The noun curator dates back to Middle English and is based on the Latin form curare meaning ‘take care of’. The verb curate first appeared some time later in the 19th century, an example of what linguists sometimes refer to as back-formation (a process in which a shorter word is formed from a longer word that already exists in the language).

Having assumed a new significance in the digital age, the word curate now often appears as a participle adjective (e.g. curated content). The concept’s application in online contexts has significantly boosted the frequency of nouns curator and curation. All these words have however been knocking about in the English language for a very long time. The noun curator dates back to Middle English and is based on the Latin form curare meaning ‘take care of’. The verb curate first appeared some time later in the 19th century, an example of what linguists sometimes refer to as back-formation (a process in which a shorter word is formed from a longer word that already exists in the language).

Having assumed a new significance in the digital age, the word curate now often appears as a participle adjective (e.g. curated content). The concept’s application in online contexts has significantly boosted the frequency of nouns curator and curation. All these words have however been knocking about in the English language for a very long time. The noun curator dates back to Middle English and is based on the Latin form curare meaning ‘take care of’. The verb curate first appeared some time later in the 19th century, an example of what linguists sometimes refer to as back-formation (a process in which a shorter word is formed from a longer word that already exists in the language).

Having assumed a new significance in the digital age, the word curate now often appears as a participle adjective (e.g. curated content). The concept’s application in online contexts has significantly boosted the frequency of nouns curator and curation. All these words have however been knocking about in the English language for a very long time. The noun curator dates back to Middle English and is based on the Latin form curare meaning ‘take care of’. The verb curate first appeared some time later in the 19th century, an example of what linguists sometimes refer to as back-formation (a process in which a shorter word is formed from a longer word that already exists in the language).