Origin: Latin suffix -ate
Illiterate has 6 different meanings across 2 categories:
a person unable to read
An illiterate person, one not able to read and write.
not able to read or write
uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field
"she is ignorant of quantum mechanics"
"he is musically illiterate"
lacking culture, especially in language and literature
Unable to read and write.