Litterateur

Alternative forms

• literateur, littérateur

Origin

From the French littérateur, from the Latin litterātor ("critic").

Noun

1. A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer.
• 1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), Boethius (author), The Consolation of Philosophy, Penguin Books, book III, chapter v, page 88, footnote 4:Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Roman philosopher, playwright and littérateur, was the boyhood tutor of the emperor Nero, and later on his adviser.