literatus means A learned person; especially one acquainted with literature. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
literatus is pronounced /lɪtəˈɹɑːtəs/.
Why “literatus” is a great word
LITERATUS — [Noun] A learned person, especially one well-versed in literature and the arts. From Latin līterātus or litterātus ("lettered, learned"), from littera ("letter"). First recorded in English use 1610–20. Unlike "literate," which denotes a basic competency with letters, or "intellectual," a broad term for a thinker, a literatus is one whose learning is cultivated and curatorial, drawn from the written word. It is the scholar whose fingertips are dusted with the fine powder of old paper, whose study carries the scent of binding glue and slow decay, and whose warmth is the low, patient glow of a lamp over vellum—a lifetime spent in quiet conversation with the ghosts of the textual canon, a testament that a life steeped in letters is a life more fully felt.
noun
- A learned person; especially one acquainted with literature.“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.”