idiota

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

idiota (plural idiotas)

1. (derogatory, slang, US) fool or imbecile

• fool    [WS]

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

idiota (masculine and feminine plural idiotes)

1. idiotic

idiota m or f (plural idiotes)

1. idiot; fool

• idiotesa

• idiòcia

• “idiota” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “idiota” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “idiota” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “idiota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

idiota m (plural idioti) idiota f (plural idiote)

1. (derogatory) idiot, moron, maroon, clot

idiota (feminine singular idiota, masculine plural idioti, feminine plural idiote)

1. idiotic

• idiozia / idiotaggine
• idiotismo

iodati, odiati

• idiōtēs

From Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “person not involved in public affairs, layman”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “private”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /i.diˈoː.ta/, [ɪ.dɪˈoː.ta]

idiōta m (genitive idiōtae); first declension

1. (derogatory) idiot

First declension.

• idiota in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• idiota in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• idiota in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• idiota in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a connoisseur; a specialist: (artis, artium) intellegens, peritus (opp. idiota, a layman)
    

idiota m

1. genitive singular form of idiots

• IPA^(key): /idˈjɔ.ta/

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idiota m pers (feminine idiotka)

1. idiot
2. (medicine, obsolete) person with severe mental retardation

In obsolete medical usage, idiota referred to severe cases of developmental disability. Milder forms were described with the words imbecyl and debil.

• See Thesaurus:głupiec

• idiotyczny
• idiotyzm

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): [i.ˈðjɔ.tɐ]
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /i.ˈd͡ʒjɔ.tɐ/, [i.ˈd͡ʒɔ.ta]
• Hyphenation: i‧dio‧ta
• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ

idiota (plural idiotas, comparable)

1. idiotic

• (idiotic): See here

idiota m, f (plural idiotas)

1. idiot

• (idiot): See here

• idiotia
• idiotice

• “idiota” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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

• IPA^(key): /iˈdjota/, [iˈðjot̪a]

idiota (plural idiotas)

1. idiotic

idiota m or f (plural idiotas)

1. (derogatory) idiot

• idiotez

• “idiota” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.