illuminator

English

Alternative forms

• illuminatour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From illuminate +‎ -or.

Noun

illuminator (plural illuminators)

1. agent noun of illuminate:
   1. One who illuminates; an explainer.
   2. An artist who adds illustrations and decorations to illuminated manuscripts^W.
      • 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:

        The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […] . Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

Related terms

• illumination

Latin

Verb

illūminātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of illūminō

References

• “illuminator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• illuminator 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)
• illuminator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.