luminate

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin luminātus, perfect passive participle of luminō (“to illuminate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from lumen (“light”). See limn.

luminate (third-person singular simple present luminates, present participle luminating, simple past and past participle luminated)

1. (obsolete) To illuminate.

• “luminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

lūmināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of lūminō