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Where does “enluminure” come from?

enluminure (French) comes from French -ure, from Old French -ure, from Latin -tūra.

enluminure (French): illumination; miniature

Definitions

  1. illumination; miniature

Ancestry of “enluminure”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1French-ureUsed to form nouns describing the result of an...
2Old French-ureused to form usually feminine, usually abstract...
3Latin-tūra—
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