illustrator

From illustrate + -or.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪləˌstɹeɪtəɹ/

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illustrator (plural illustrators)

1. a person who draws pictures (especially illustrations in books or magazines)

   Mary is one of the best illustrators of children's books in the country.

• illustrate
• illustration
• artist

• → Japanese: イラストレーター (irasutorētā)

• (obsolete, nonstandard) illustrateur

From Latin illustrātor. Equivalent to illustreren +‎ -ator. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪ.lyˈstraː.tɔr/, /ˌi.lyˈstraː.tɔr/

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• Hyphenation: il‧lus‧tra‧tor
• Rhymes: -aːtɔr

illustrator m (plural illustratoren or illustrators, diminutive illustratortje n, feminine illustratrice)

1. illustrator

   Synonym: tekenaar

From illūstrō + -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪl.luːsˈtraː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [il.lusˈtraː.tor]

illūstrātor m (genitive illūstrātōris); third declension

1. one that gives light
2. one that grants enlightenment

Third-declension noun.

• illūstrō

illūstrātor

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

• “illustrator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “illustrator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• illustrator in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung