illustrator

See also: Illustrator and illustratør

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English illustrate

English -or

English illustrator

From illustrate + -or.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪləˌstɹeɪtəɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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.

Derived terms

• illustratress
• paleoillustrator

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)
• Belarusian: ілюстра́тар m (iljustrátar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 插圖畫家 / 插图画家 (chātú huàjiā)

• Czech: ilustrátor m
• Danish: illustrator c
• Dutch: illustrator (nl) m
• Finnish: kuvittaja (fi)
• French: illustrateur (fr) m, illustratrice (fr) f
• Galician: ilustrador m
• 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
• Ukrainian: ілюстра́тор m (iljustrátor), ілюстра́торка f (iljustrátorka)

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/

• Audio:

  (file)

• 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

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Latin lūstrum

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin lūstrō

Latin illūstrō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin illūstrātor

From illūstrō + -tor.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

illūstrātor m (genitive illūstrātōris); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	illūstrātor	illūstrātōrēs
genitive	illūstrātōris	illūstrātōrum
dative	illūstrātōrī	illūstrātōribus
accusative	illūstrātōrem	illūstrātōrēs
ablative	illūstrātōre	illūstrātōribus
vocative	illūstrātor	illūstrātōrēs

Related terms

• illūstrō

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