different between literature vs literatus

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Alternative forms

• literatuer (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English literature, from Old French littérature, from Latin literatura or litteratura, from littera (“letter”), from Etruscan, from Ancient Greek ??????? (diphthér?, “tablet”). Displaced native Old English b?ccræft.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?.t?.??.t??(?)/, /?l?.t??.t??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?.t?.?.t??/, /?l?.t?.?.t??/, /?l?.t???.t??/, /?l?.t?.t??/
• (Midwestern US) IPA^(key): /?l?.t?.t??/

Noun

literature (usually uncountable, plural literatures)

1. The body of all written works.
2. The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
3. (usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.

   • The obvious question to ask at this point is: ‘Why posit the existence of a set of Thematic Relations (THEME, AGENT, INSTRUMENT, etc.) distinct from constituent structure relations?? The answer given in the relevant literature is that a variety of linguistic phenomena can be accounted for in a more principled way in terms of Thematic Functions than in terms of constituent structure relations.
4. Written fiction of a high standard.

   However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature, because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008

Derived terms

Meronyms

• See also Thesaurus:literature

Related terms

• letter
• literal
• literacy
• literate
• literary

Translations

Further reading

• "literature" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 183.

Anagrams

• literateur, literatuer

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?ter?tus, litter?tus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?t?????t?s/

Noun

literatus (plural literati)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A learned person; one acquainted with literature.
   • 1823, Thomas De Quincey, Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected (published in London Magazine)

     Now , we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be married — in fact, Mr. Coleridge agrees to allow him a wife

Anagrams

• rutilates, tertulias

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /li.te?ra?.tus/, [l?t????ä?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /li.te?ra.tus/, [lit??????t?us]

Adjective

liter?tus (feminine liter?ta, neuter liter?tum, superlative liter?tissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. Alternative form of litter?tus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

References

• literatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)