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单词 illuminator
释义

illuminator

English

Alternative forms

  • illuminatour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

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 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.

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
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