litteratus

Latin

Alternative forms

līterātus

Etymology

From littera (“letter”) +‎ -ātus (“-ed”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [lɪt.tɛˈraː.tʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [lit̪.t̪eˈraː.t̪us]

Adjective

litterātus (feminine litterāta, neuter litterātum, comparative litterātior, superlative litterātissimus, adverb litterātē); first/second-declension adjective

learned, educated, scholarly, literate
cultured, erudite

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	litterātus	litterāta	litterātum	litterātī	litterātae	litterāta
genitive	litterātī	litterātae	litterātī	litterātōrum	litterātārum	litterātōrum
dative	litterātō	litterātae	litterātō	litterātīs
accusative	litterātum	litterātam	litterātum	litterātōs	litterātās	litterāta
ablative	litterātō	litterātā	litterātō	litterātīs
vocative	litterāte	litterāta	litterātum	litterātī	litterātae	litterāta

Descendants

Asturian: lletráu
Catalan: lletrat
Occitan: letrat
Old Galician-Portuguese: leterado
- Galician: leterado
- Portuguese: letrado
  - Macanese: letrado
Spanish: letrado
French: lettré

Borrowings

→ Asturian: lliteratu
→ Catalan: lliterat
→ English: literate
→ Italian: literato
→ Portuguese: literato
→ Spanish: literato

References

“litteratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“litteratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
litteratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a man of learning; a scholar; a savant: vir or homo doctus, litteratus
- (ambiguous) to the letter; literally: ad litteram, litterate
litteratus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016