English
enlumine
Enlumine comes from Old French enluminer.
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400enluminer
- Englishearliest quotation 1596enlumine
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400enluminer
- Englishearliest quotation 1596enlumine
Earliest quotation: 1596, Edmund Spenser, Book V, Prologue: “Ne is that ſame great glorious lampe of light,…”
Every English word from Old French enluminer
Today it means
verb To illumine; to light up.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old French enluminer / enlumine