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单词 literatus
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literatus

[ lit-uh-rah-tuhs, -rey- ]
/ ˌlɪt əˈrɑ təs, -ˈreɪ- /

noun

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

First recorded in 1610–20; see origin at literati

Words nearby literatus

literati, literatim, literation, literator, literature, literatus, lith, lithagogue, litharge, lithe, lithectomy
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Example sentences from the Web for literatus

  • The literatus who realized this had his own message in mind.

    Drum Taps|Walt Whitman
  • The school of the literatus was much better than that of the literator, but it reached only a limited number of the Roman youth.

    History of Education|Levi Seeley
  • Huc advolarunt tres viri, duo lanifices, literarum rudes, literatus tertius est.

    History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume III|J. H. Merle D'Aubign
  • This species is closely allied to the M. literatus of Brullé; but it differs too much, I think, to be identical with it.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3|Various
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