illuminator
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- illuminatour (obsolete, rare)
Etymology edit
illuminate + -or
Noun edit
illuminator (plural illuminators)
- agent noun of illuminate:
- One who illuminates; an explainer.
- 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.
Related terms edit
Latin edit
Verb edit
illūminātor
References edit
- “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