Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

republic of letters

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English

Syllables: re-pub-lic of let-ters
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The intellectual community in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and the Americas, exchanging ideas by circulating handwritten letters.

Etymology

The first known occurrence of the term in its Latin form (Respublica literaria) is in a letter by Francesco Barbaro to Poggio Bracciolini dated July 6, 1417.

Inflected Forms

the Republic of Letters (canonical)

Questions

What does republic of letters mean?: The intellectual community in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and the Americas, exchanging ideas by circulating handwritten letters.
Where does republic of letters come from?: The first known occurrence of the term in its Latin form (Respublica literaria) is in a letter by Francesco Barbaro to Poggio Bracciolini dated July 6, 1417.

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