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Etymology edit

illuminate +‎ -or

Noun edit

illuminator (plural illuminators)

  1. agent noun of illuminate:
    1. One who illuminates; an explainer.
    2. An artist who adds illustrations and decorations to illuminated manuscriptsW.
      • 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.

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Verb edit

illūminātor

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

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