literatus

American  

[lit-uh-rah-tuhs, -rey-] / ˌlɪt əˈrɑ təs, -ˈreɪ- /

noun

1. a member of the literati, or intellectual class.

   My daughter married a true literatus—a Ph.D. in philosophy and two volumes of poetry to his name.

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Etymology

Origin of literatus

First recorded in 1610–20; see origin at literati ( def. )

Example Sentences

Which is to say: he’s a typical Homo literatus brooklynensis.

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2022

British critics have just discovered "a major dramatist" who turns out to be that old literatus of the libido, David Herbert Lawrence.

From Time Magazine Archive

For all his poverty, his neuroses, he saw life more wholly than perhaps any other literatus of his time.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had outlived his pre-Civil War hopefulness, but he was still capable only of vague "orbic" statements about the leadership of "the divine literatus," and preached once again "his old back-to-nature illusion."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is noteworthy that his contemporary Adam Murimuth disparages him as "mediocriter literatus, volens tamen magnus clericus reputari," but such disparagement must be taken with the utmost caution.

From The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury by Thomas, Ernest Chester