litterateur

• literateur, littérateur

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌlɪtəɹəˈtɜː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌlɪtəɹəˈtʊɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r), -ʊə(r)

litterateur (plural litterateurs, feminine litterateuse or litteratrice)

1. 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.