köken: From conserver + -(at)oire (adjective-forming suffix), a learned formation built on the supine stem cōnservāt- of Latin cōnservāre, like the noun conservation. Corresponds to the Medieval Latin adjective cōnservātōrius.
conservatory, music academy (a college of music, typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students; the building of this school; all the teachers and students at this school)