literatus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin līterātus, litterātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪtəˈɹɑːtəs/

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• rutilates, tertulias

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. Alternative form of litterātus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	literātus	literāta	literātum		literātī	literātae	literāta
Genitive	literātī	literātae	literātī		literātōrum	literātārum	literātōrum
Dative	literātō		literātō		literātīs
Accusative	literātum	literātam	literātum		literātōs	literātās	literāta
Ablative	literātō	literātā	literātō		literātīs
Vocative	literāte	literāta	literātum		literātī	literātae	literāta

References

• 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)