cretin

Senso (Inglese)

  1. (archaic) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.
  2. (broadly, derogatory) An idiot.

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/ˈkɹɛtɪn/
Etimologia (Inglese)

From French crétin (“cretin, idiot”), likely from crestin, an Alpine dialectal form of chrétien, from Latin christiānus in the lost sense of “anyone in Christendom”, often with a sense of “poor fellow”. Doublet of Christian.

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