enluminure
French, noun/ɑ̃.ly.mi.nyʁ/
enluminure is spelled E-N-L-U-M-I-N-U-R-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,044th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enluminure is a French feminine noun meaning “illumination” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Art d’enluminer”.
What does enluminure mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineillumination
- 2
feminineminiature
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Art d’enluminer. 2. Ornements en couleur, tels que fleurons, vignettes, lettres ornées, sujets à personnages, qui décorent les manuscrits du Moyen Âge. 3. Action d’enluminer ; ou résultat de cette action. 4. Style trop chargé de couleur.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of enluminure
- enluminures plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enluminure?
- /ɑ̃.ly.mi.nyʁ/
- \ɑ̃.ly.mi.nyʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to enluminure
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enluminure in French?
enluminure appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).