Philomath vs Literate - What's the difference?
philomath | literate |
(archaic) A lover of learning; a scholar.
* 1824 , Rev. Philip Skelton, The Complete Works of the Late Rev. Philip Skelton, Rector of Fintona , page 27:
* 1896 , John Bach McMaster, Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters , page 108:
An astrologer or predictor.
*2007, Thomas Fleming, Benjamin Frankiln: Inventing America , Sterling point books, age 33
*:"The success of an almanac depended upon the appeal of the "philomath"-the resident astologer who did the writing and predicting."
Able to read and write; having literacy.
Knowledgeable in literature, writing; literary; well-read.
Which is used in writing (of a language or dialect).
* 2005 , Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World , Harper:
As nouns the difference between philomath and literate
is that philomath is a lover of learning; a scholar while literate is a person who is able to read and write.As an adjective literate is
able to read and write; having literacy.philomath
English
Noun
(en noun)- For this (in my humble opinion, not very important purpose, and fitter to employ the talent of a philomath than a Newton) he and Leibnitz, much about the same, struck out a fluxional method, which they both took for a demonstration.
- Jerman for twenty years past had been the author of a Quaker almanac, and had for about the same time been engaged in a fierce almanac warfare with Jacob Taylor, a philomath and a printer of Friends’ books.
literate
English
(wikipedia literate)Adjective
(en adjective)- The Mongol emperor Kublai Khan even commissioned an alphabetic script for his empire, to be used officially for all its literate languages, Mongolian, Chinese, Turkic and Persian.