homme de lettres

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French homme de lettres, from homme (“man”) + de (“of”) + lettres (“humanities, arts”). === Noun === homme de lettres (plural hommes de lettres) man of letters, a literary man ==== Usage notes ==== This is a foreign term not fully naturalized in English and is sometimes italicized. == French == === Pronunciation === (mute h) IPA(key): /ɔm də lɛtʁ/ === Noun === homme de lettres m (plural hommes de lettres or gens de lettres, feminine femme de lettres) homme de lettres, man of letters ==== See also ==== homme de loi