literatus
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin līterātus, litterātus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]literatus (plural literati)
- (chiefly in the plural) A learned person; especially one acquainted with literature.
- 1823, Thomas De Quincey, “Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected. Letter I.”, in Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected; and Other Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XIV), London: James Hogg & Sons, published 1860, →OCLC, page 21:
- Now, we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be married,—in fact, Mr. [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge agrees to allow him a wife.
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From lītera (“letter”) + -ātus (“-ed”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /liː.teˈraː.tus/, [lʲiːt̪ɛˈräːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /li.teˈra.tus/, [lit̪eˈräːt̪us]
Adjective
[edit]līterātus (feminine līterāta, neuter līterātum, superlative līterātissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- Alternative form of litterātus
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | līterātus | līterāta | līterātum | līterātī | līterātae | līterāta | |
genitive | līterātī | līterātae | līterātī | līterātōrum | līterātārum | līterātōrum | |
dative | līterātō | līterātae | līterātō | līterātīs | |||
accusative | līterātum | līterātam | līterātum | līterātōs | līterātās | līterāta | |
ablative | līterātō | līterātā | līterātō | līterātīs | |||
vocative | līterāte | līterāta | līterātum | līterātī | līterātae | līterāta |
References
[edit]- literatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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