different between cretin vs ignoramus

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??t?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?i?t?n/, /?k??t?n/
• Homophone: Cretan (one pronunciation)

Noun

cretin (plural cretins)

1. (pathology) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism. [from 1779]
2. (by extension, derogatory) An idiot.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:idiot

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• Cretinism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Cretinism on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• centri-, cinter, citren, crinet

Romanian

Etymology

From French crétin

Noun

cretin m (plural cretini)

1. idiot

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n???e?m?s/
• Rhymes: -e?m?s

Etymology 1

After the ignorant lawyer Ignoramus, the titular character in the 1615 play Ignoramus by the English playwright Georges Ruggle; from Latin ign?r?mus (“we do not know, we are ignorant of”), the first-person plural present active indicative of ign?r? (“I do not know, I am unacquainted with, I am ignorant of”).

Alternative forms

• ignoramous

Noun

ignoramus (plural ignoramuses)

1. A totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.

Usage notes

The hyper-correct plural form ignorami is seen by most as humorous and non-standard, as the word derives from a Latin verb, not from a noun.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ignoramus

Translations

Etymology 2

Directly from Latin ign?r?mus (“we do not know”).

Noun

ignoramus (plural ignoramuses)

1. (law, dated) A grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial.

Anagrams

• origanums

Latin

Verb

ign?r?mus

1. first-person plural present active indicative of ign?r?