literatus

[ lit-uh-rah-tuhs, -rey- ]

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of literatus¹

First recorded in 1610–20; literati ( def )

Example Sentences

Which is to say: he’s a typical Homo literatus brooklynensis.

From Washington Post

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 is not the riproaring Mencken of the 1920s, when his name was on the lips of every undergraduate literatus, when newspapermen were supposed to carry copies of the Mercury in their hip pockets along with their liquor flasks, and when he himself was scorching Fundamentalists at the Scopes trial, sitting up all night with characters like Rudolph Valentino, and lalloping around Manhattan with Ernest Boyd and Jim Huneker.

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