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

He is still living in Indianapolis, on a street with the glorious name of Meridian, and never was Princeton more conscious of him as her leading literatus.

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

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

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

A simultaneous innovation was the appointment of a Buddhist priest, Bin, and a literatus, Kuromaro, to be "national doctors."

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)