"A person engaged in literary pursuits; a writer; = littérateur. Now rare", Mid 17th cent.; earliest use found in Richard Montagu (bap. 1575, d. 1641), bishop of Norwich and religious controversialist. From classical Latin litterātor (also literātor) schoolteacher, frequently used disparagingly, in post-classical Latin also writer, author from littera + -tor, suffix forming agent nouns.[literator etymology, literator origin, 英语词源]