illustrator

See also: Illustrator and illustratør

English

Etymology

From illustrate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪləˌstɹeɪtəɹ/

Noun

illustrator (plural illustrators)

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

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

Related terms

• illustrate
• illustration
• artist

Descendants

• → Japanese: イラストレーター (irasutorētā)

Translations

person who draws pictures

• Arabic: مُصَوِّر m (muṣawwir)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 插圖畫家／插图画家 (chātú huàjiā)

• Czech: ilustrátor m
• Dutch: illustrator (nl) m
• Finnish: kuvittaja (fi)
• French: illustrateur (fr) m, illustratrice (fr) f
• German: Illustrator (de) m
• Greek: εικονογράφος (el) m (eikonográfos)
• Hungarian: illusztrátor (hu)
• Japanese: イラストレーター (ja) (irasutorētā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: illustratør m

  Nynorsk: illustratør m

• Persian: تصویرگر (tasvirgar)
• Portuguese: desenhista (pt), ilustrador (pt) m
• Russian: иллюстра́тор (ru) m (illjustrátor)
• Spanish: ilustrador (es) m, ilustradora (es) f
• Swedish: illustratör (sv) c
• Tagalog: ilustrador
• Turkish: illüstratör

Dutch

Alternative forms

• (obsolete, nonstandard) illustrateur

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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

Noun

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

1. illustrator

   Synonym: tekenaar

Related terms

• illustratie
• illustratief

 

Latin

Verb

illūstrātor

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

References

• “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.