different between illuminate vs illuminer

English

Etymology

From Middle English illuminaten, borrowed from Latin ill?min?tum, supine of ill?min? (“lighten, light up, show off”), from in + l?min? (“light up”), from l?men (“light”). Cognate with Old English l?man (“to glow, shine”). More at leam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l(j)um?ne?t/, /??l(j)um?ne?t/ (verb)
• (verb)
• IPA^(key): /??l(j)um?n?t/ (noun, adjective)

Verb

illuminate (third-person singular simple present illuminates, present participle illuminating, simple past and past participle illuminated)

1. (transitive) To shine light on something.
2. (transitive) To decorate something with lights.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To clarify or make something understandable.
4. (transitive) To decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs.
5. (transitive, figuratively) To make spectacular.
6. (intransitive) To glow; to light up.
   • 1994, Sylvia Carlson, Verne Carlson, Professional Cameraman's Handbook ?ISBN, page 494:

     Red diode in button illuminates when camera runs at speed set in five-digit speed selector.

   • 2011/2012, "Spectrum", written by Florence Welch and Paul Epworth, performed by Florence and the Machine, released on the album Ceremonials (2011):

     Say my name / and every color illuminates. / We are shining / […]

7. (intransitive) To be exposed to light.
8. (transitive, military) To direct a radar beam toward.

Synonyms

• (shine light on something): belight, enlighten, illumine; See also Thesaurus:illuminate
• (decorate something with lights): See also Thesaurus:decorate
• (make something understandable): bring home, clarify, elucidate, explicitize, sort out, straighten out
• (decorate the page of a manuscript book): illustrate, quill; See also Thesaurus:decorate
• (to glow; to light up): gleam, illumine, shine; See also Thesaurus:shine

Derived terms

• transilluminate
• illuminator

Translations

Noun

illuminate (plural illuminates)

1. Someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.

Adjective

illuminate (comparative more illuminate, superlative most illuminate)

1. (obsolete) enlightened
   • February 28 1630, Joseph Hall, The Hypocrite

     do ye see an illuminate elder of the anabaptists rapt in divine ecstasies?

Interlingua

Participle

illuminate

1. past participle of illuminar

Italian

Adjective

illuminate f pl

1. feminine plural of illuminato

Verb

illuminate

1. second-person plural present of illuminare
2. second-person plural imperative of illuminare
3. feminine plural past participle of illuminare

Anagrams

• alluminite

Latin

Participle

ill?min?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ill?min?tus

References

• illuminate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• illuminate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

illumine +? -er

Noun

illuminer (plural illuminers)

1. One who, or that which, illuminates.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ill?min?, ill?min?re (“illuminate, light up, brighten”). Compare allumer and enluminer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ly.mi.ne/

Verb

illuminer

1. (transitive) to illuminate, to light up

   Les étoiles illuminent le ciel noir.

   The stars illuminate the dark sky.

2. (transitive, figuratively) to illuminate, to enlighten

Conjugation

Synonyms

• éclairer

Derived terms

• illumination
• illuminé
• illumineur

Related terms

• lumière
• lumineux

Further reading

• “illuminer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

ill?miner

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of ill?min?