literatus

Borrowed from Latin līterātus, litterātus.

• IPA^(key): /lɪtəˈɹɑːtəs/

literatus (plural literati)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A learned person; one acquainted with literature.
   • 1823, Thomas De Quincey, Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected (published in London Magazine)

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

• literato

• literata

• rutilates, tertulias

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /li.teˈraː.tus/, [lʲɪt̪ɛˈräːt̪ʊs̠]
• (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)