enluminer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin illūmināre, with a change of prefix from il- (allomorph of in-) to en-. Doublet of illuminer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ly.mi.ne/

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Verb

enluminer

1. (transitive, archaic) to light up, embrighten
2. (transitive) to brighten, make brighter, brighten up (make more colorful)
3. (historical, transitive) to illuminate (a manuscript, etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of enluminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enluminer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enluminant /ɑ̃.ly.mi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enluminé /ɑ̃.ly.mi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enlumine /ɑ̃.ly.min/	enlumines /ɑ̃.ly.min/	enlumine /ɑ̃.ly.min/	enluminons /ɑ̃.ly.mi.nɔ̃/	enluminez /ɑ̃.ly.mi.ne/	enluminent /ɑ̃.ly.min/
	imperfect	enluminais /ɑ̃.ly.mi.nɛ/	enluminais /ɑ̃.ly.mi.nɛ/	enluminait /ɑ̃.ly.mi.nɛ/	enluminions /ɑ̃.ly.mi.njɔ̃/	enluminiez /ɑ̃.ly.mi.nje/	enluminaient /ɑ̃.ly.mi.nɛ/
	past historic2	enluminai /ɑ̃.ly.mi.ne/	enluminas /ɑ̃.ly.mi.na/	enlumina /ɑ̃.ly.mi.na/	enluminâmes /ɑ̃.ly.mi.nam/	enluminâtes /ɑ̃.ly.mi.nat/	enluminèrent /ɑ̃.ly.mi.nɛʁ/
	future	enluminerai /ɑ̃.ly.min.ʁe/	enlumineras /ɑ̃.ly.min.ʁa/	enluminera /ɑ̃.ly.min.ʁa/	enluminerons /ɑ̃.ly.min.ʁɔ̃/	enluminerez /ɑ̃.ly.min.ʁe/	enlumineront /ɑ̃.ly.min.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enluminerais /ɑ̃.ly.min.ʁɛ/	enluminerais /ɑ̃.ly.min.ʁɛ/	enluminerait /ɑ̃.ly.min.ʁɛ/	enluminerions /ɑ̃.ly.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	enlumineriez /ɑ̃.ly.mi.nə.ʁje/	enlumineraient /ɑ̃.ly.min.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	enlumine /ɑ̃.ly.min/	enlumines /ɑ̃.ly.min/	enlumine /ɑ̃.ly.min/	enluminions /ɑ̃.ly.mi.njɔ̃/	enluminiez /ɑ̃.ly.mi.nje/	enluminent /ɑ̃.ly.min/
	imperfect2	enluminasse /ɑ̃.ly.mi.nas/	enluminasses /ɑ̃.ly.mi.nas/	enluminât /ɑ̃.ly.mi.na/	enluminassions /ɑ̃.ly.mi.na.sjɔ̃/	enluminassiez /ɑ̃.ly.mi.na.sje/	enluminassent /ɑ̃.ly.mi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enlumine /ɑ̃.ly.min/	—	enluminons /ɑ̃.ly.mi.nɔ̃/	enluminez /ɑ̃.ly.mi.ne/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• enlumineur
• enluminure

Further reading

• “enluminer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.