literatus

[ lit-uh-rah-tuhs, -rey- ]
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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.

Origin of literatus

1
First recorded in 1610–20; see origin at literati

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