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

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

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

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 then `another said of another, alius de alio, "That Frater is a homo literatus, eloquent, sagacious; vigorous in discipline; loves the Convent much, has suffered much for its sake."

From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas