limn

Meaning

Verb

• To draw or paint; to delineate.
• To illuminate, as a manuscript; to decorate with gold or some other bright colour.

Origin

• From Middle English limnen, limyne, lymm, lymn, lymne, a variant of luminen, short form of enluminen, from Old French enluminer, from Latin illūminō, from il- (a variant of in-) + lūminō (from lūmen (from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-) + -ō).