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noun the literary intelligentsia
originEtymology tree Latin lītera Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin līterātībor. English literati From Latin līterātī, plural of līterātus (“lettered, literate”).
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