litterateur

The ‘i’ in the first syllable is like the ‘i’ in ‘it’ and ‘bit’; the vowels in the following two syllables are pronounced like the ‘a’ in ‘china’. The ‘eu’ in the final syllable sounds like the ‘ir’ in ‘shirt’, ‘dirt’, and ‘birth’. One way of pronouncing the word is ‘lit-e-re-TIR’ with the stress on the final syllable. It comes from the Latin ‘litterator’ meaning ‘critic’. A ‘litterateur’ is a literary person; someone who is devoted to the study or writing of literature. He is usually a man of letters: a professional writer.

*The university is planning to honour some of the well known litterateurs