Just like the title. I noticed this word when I was reading a game's art book, in which the sentence goes:
Feeling down? Bring the sunshine inside with Henderson’s new Illuminatrix. (Source, at the bottom of page 1)
I googled it yet there seems to have nothing that matches the sentence. Is it a misspelled one (it looks so similar to "illumination") or it does exist?
Best Answer
"-trix" is the female equivalent of "-tor". It's called the agential suffix and comes from Latin. A gladiatrix is a female gladiator and presumably an illuminatrix is a female illuminator. Illuminators did the illustrations for medieval bibles. I don't know if they get much work nowadays.
Alternatively, she might put up lights somewhere.