literati

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌlɪt.əˈɹɑː.tiː/
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• General-American: /ˌlɪtəˈɹɑti/
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• CMU ARPABET: L IH2 T ER0 AA1 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Latin lītera Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin līterātībor. English literati From Latin līterātī, plural of līterātus (“lettered, literate”).

11 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 文學家 /文学家 (wénxuéjiā) — well-educated, literary people
• Chinese Mandarin: 文人 (wénrén) — well-educated, literary people
• Finnish: lukeneisto — well-educated, literary people
• French: littérateur — well-educated, literary people
• French: littératrice — well-educated, literary people
• German: Bildungsbürger — well-educated, literary people
• Indonesian: literati — well-educated, literary people
• Japanese: 文学者 (bungakusha) — well-educated, literary people
• Macedonian: литера́ти (literáti) — well-educated, literary people
• Russian: литера́тор (literátor) — well-educated, literary people
• Spanish: literatos — well-educated, literary people