idiot

• eejit (Irish English, eye dialect)
• idjit, idget (eye dialect)

From Middle English idiote, ydiote, from Old French idiote (later idiot), from Latin idiota, from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “a private citizen, one who has no professional knowledge, layman”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪd.i.(j)ɪt/

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idiot (plural idiots)

1. (derogatory) A person of low general intelligence.
2. (derogatory) A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool.
3. (obsolete, medicine, psychology) A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old; a person with an IQ below 30.

• While pejorative, the word is only a weak insult, and between close friends or family members it may be used affectionately.

• See also Thesaurus:idiot

• genius

idiot (comparative more idiot, superlative most idiot)

1. (uncommon) idiotic, stupid

idiot m

1. (mildly vulgar) idiot (disliked or slow-witted person)
2. idiot (person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old)

• idiotský
• idiocie

• bezmozek
• blb
• blbec
• blbeček
• blboun
• debil
• debžot
• dement
• hlupák
• hlupec
• hlupoň
• hňup
• imbecil
• janek
• Janek
• kretén
• pablb
• pako
• pitomec
• slaboduch
• tupec
• tupoň
• tupoun
• ťulpas
• vymaštěnec
• vypatlanec
• zabedněnec

• idiot in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• idiot in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Old French idiot (cf. also the older form idiote), borrowed from Latin idiōta, from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “layman”) from ἴδιος (ídios, “private”).

• IPA^(key): /i.djo/

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• Homophone: idiots

idiot (feminine singular idiote, masculine plural idiots, feminine plural idiotes)

1. idiotic; stupid

idiot m (plural idiots, feminine idiote)

1. idiot

• “idiot” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs)

idiot m (definite singular idioten, indefinite plural idioter, definite plural idiotene)

1. an idiot, imbecile, fool

• idiotsikker
• kraftidiot
• kronidiot

• “idiot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs)

idiot m (definite singular idioten, indefinite plural idiotar, definite plural idiotane)

1. an idiot, imbecile, fool

• idiotsikker
• kraftidiot
• kronidiot

• “idiot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• idiote

Borrowed from Latin idiōta, from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “layman”) from ἴδιος (ídios, “private”).

idiot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular idiote)

1. ignorant; narrow-minded

• The form idiote was sometimes used as both masculine and feminine, as a direct borrowing from Latin idiota.

• English: idiot (borrowed)
• French: idiot

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (idiot, supplement)

Borrowed from French idiot, itself borrowed from Latin idiōta, from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “layman”) from ἴδιος (ídios, “private”).

• IPA^(key): /i.diˈot/

idiot m (plural idioți, feminine equivalent idioată)

1. idiot, moron, imbecile

• prost, tâmpit, imbecil, cretin

idiot m or n (feminine singular idioată, masculine plural idioți, feminine and neuter plural idioate)

1. stupid, idiotic, foolish, absurd

• prost, tâmpit, stupid

From Latin idiōta, from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “a private citizen, one who has no professional knowledge, layman”).

• IPA^(key): /idǐot/
• Hyphenation: i‧di‧ot

idìot m (Cyrillic spelling идѝот)

1. idiot

• glùpan
• blèsan
• krètēn

From Latin idiōta, from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “a private citizen, one who has no professional knowledge, layman”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈidiɔt/

idiot m (genitive singular idiota, nominative plural idioti, genitive plural idiotov, declension pattern of chlap)

1. (derogatory) idiot

• idiotický
• idioticky
• idiotstvo
• idiotizmus

• blázon
• hlupák

• idiot in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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idiot c

1. (derogatory) idiot