erudit means an erudite person, a scholar, especially in French contexts. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
noun
- An erudite person, a scholar, especially in French contexts.“When the fragments of Petronius made a great noise in the literary world, Meibomius, an erudit of Lubeck, read in a letter from another learned scholar of Bologna, ' We have here an entire Petronius [...].’”