illuminator

• illuminatour (obsolete, rare)

From illuminate +‎ -or.

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.

• illumination

From illūminō +‎ -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):

illūminātor m (genitive illūminātōris); third declension

1. one that lights a source of illumination, such as a lamp
2. one that gives light or grants enlightenment

Third-declension noun.

• illūminō

illūminātor

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

• “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.
• illuminator in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung