litterateur
See also: littérateur
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the French littérateur, from the Latin litterātor (“critic”).
Noun
litterateur (plural litterateurs, feminine litterateuse or litteratrice)
- A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer.
- 1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (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.
- 1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (author), The Consolation of Philosophy, Penguin Books, book III, chapter v, page 88, footnote 4:
Translations
person engaged in various literary works
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