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lit⋅e⋅ra⋅ti

[lit-uh-rah-tee, -rey-]
–plural noun, singular -ra⋅tus [-rah-tuhs, -rey-] .
persons of scholarly or literary attainments; intellectuals.

Origin:
1615–25; < L līterāti learned, scholarly people, n. use of pl. of līterātus. See literate
lit·er·a·ti   (lĭt'ə-rä'tē)   
pl.n.  The literary intelligentsia.

[Latin litterātī, līterātī, pl. of litterātus, literate; see literate.]

Literati

Lit`e*ra"ti\, n. pl. [See Literatus.] Learned or literary men. See Literatus.

Shakespearean commentators, and other literati. --Craik.

literati 
"men and women of letters; the learned class as a whole," 1621, from L. lit(t)erati, pl. of lit(t)eratus "lettered" (see literate). The proper sing. would be literatus, though It. literato (1704) sometimes is used.
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