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• singular of literati.

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. )

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For Mae, who fancies herself no end as a literatus and has always jealously insisted on authoring her own scripts, this time took a tip from Producer Cowan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Latest literatus to attempt this particular impossibility is Author Golding who plants his small potatoes in neat rows on either side Magnolia Street.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

And it may be ask'd, Are these not better, indeed, for America, than any utterances even of greatest rhapsode, artist, or literatus?

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt