literatus

Borrowed from Latin līterātus, litterātus.

• IPA^(key): /lɪtəˈɹɑːtəs/

literatus (plural literati)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A learned person; especially one acquainted with literature.

   Synonym: literato

   Coordinate term: literata

   • 1823, Thomas De Quincey, “Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected. Letter I.”, in Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected; and Other Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XIV), London: James Hogg & Sons, published 1860, →OCLC, page 21:

     Now, we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be married,—in fact, Mr. [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge agrees to allow him a wife.

• rutilates, tertulias

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /li.teˈraː.tus/, [lʲɪt̪ɛˈräːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /li.teˈra.tus/, [lit̪eˈräːt̪us]

literātus (feminine literāta, neuter literātum, superlative literātissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. Alternative form of litterātus

First/second-declension adjective.

• literatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)