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English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Middle English idiote, ydiote, from Old French idiote (later idiot), from Latin idiota, from Ancient Greek ??????? (idi?t?s, “a private citizen, one who has no professional knowledge, layman”), from ????? (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??d.i.(j)?t/, /??d.i.(j)?t/

Noun

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.

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:idiot

Antonyms

• genius

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

idiot (comparative more idiot, superlative most idiot)

1. (uncommon) idiotic, stupid

Translations

Czech

Noun

idiot m

1. (mildly vulgar) idiot (disliked or slow-witted person)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hlupák

2. idiot (person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old)

Related terms

• idiotský
• idiocie

Further reading

• idiot in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• idiot in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (idi?t?s)

Noun

idiot

1. (derogatory) an idiot, imbecile, fool

Derived terms

• idiotsikker
• kraftidiot

References

• “idiot” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Old French idiot (cf. also the older form idiote), borrowed from Latin idi?ta, from Ancient Greek ??????? (idi?t?s, “layman”) from ????? (ídios, “private”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.djo/
• Homophone: idiots
• Rhymes: -jo

Adjective

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

1. idiotic; stupid

Noun

idiot m (plural idiots, feminine idiote)

1. idiot

Descendants

• ? Polish: idiota

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (idi?t?s)

Noun

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

1. (derogatory) an idiot, imbecile, fool

Derived terms

• idiotsikker
• kraftidiot
• kronidiot

References

• “idiot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (idi?t?s)

Noun

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

1. (derogatory) an idiot, imbecile, fool

Derived terms

• idiotsikker
• kraftidiot
• kronidiot

References

• “idiot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

• idiote

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin idi?ta, from Ancient Greek ??????? (idi?t?s, “layman”) from ????? (ídios, “private”).

Adjective

idiot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular idiote)

1. ignorant; narrow-minded

Usage notes

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

Descendants

• ? English: idiot
• French: idiot

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French idiot, itself borrowed from Latin idi?ta, from Ancient Greek ??????? (idi?t?s, “layman”) from ????? (ídios, “private”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.di?ot/

Noun

idiot m (plural idio?i, feminine equivalent idioat?)

1. idiot, moron, imbecile

Synonyms

• prost, tâmpit, imbecil, cretin

Adjective

idiot m or n (feminine singular idioat?, masculine plural idio?i, feminine and neuter plural idioate)

1. stupid, idiotic, foolish, absurd

Declension

Synonyms

• prost, tâmpit, stupid

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin idi?ta, from Ancient Greek ??????? (idi?t?s, “a private citizen, one who has no professional knowledge, layman”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /id?ot/
• Hyphenation: i?di?ot

Noun

idìot m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. idiot

Declension

See also

• glùpan
• blèsan
• krèt?n

Slovak

Etymology

From Latin idi?ta, from Ancient Greek ??????? (idi?t?s, “a private citizen, one who has no professional knowledge, layman”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?idi?t/

Noun

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

1. (derogatory) idiot

Declension

Derived terms

• idiotický
• idioticky
• idiotstvo
• idiotizmus

See also

• blázon
• hlupák

Further reading

• idiot in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Swedish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (idi?t?s, “a private citizen, one who has no professional knowledge, layman”), from ????? (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private”).

Pronunciation

Noun

idiot c

1. (derogatory) idiot

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• weïrd, wierd (obsolete)
• weyard, weyward (obsolete, Shakespeare)

Etymology

From Middle English werde, wierde, wirde, wyrede, wurde, from Old English wyrd (“fate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurdi, from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with Icelandic urður (“fate”). Related to Old English weorþan (“to become”). Doublet of wyrd. More at worth.

Weird was extinct by the 16th century in English. It survived in Scots, whence Shakespeare borrowed it in naming the Weird Sisters, reintroducing it to English. The senses "abnormal", "strange" etc. arose via reinterpretation of Weird Sisters and date from after this reintroduction.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w??d/, /?wi??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?wi?d/, /?w??d/
• Rhymes: -??(r)d

Adjective

weird (comparative weirder, superlative weirdest)

1. Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

2. Deviating from the normal; bizarre.

3. (archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates.

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4. (archaic) Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
5. (archaic) Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.

   • Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation.

   • 1912, Victor Whitechurch, Thrilling Stories of the Railway

     Naphtha lamps shed a weird light over a busy scene, for the work was being continued night and day. A score or so of sturdy navvies were shovelling and picking along the track.

6. (archaic) Having supernatural or preternatural power.

Synonyms

• (having supernatural or preternatural power): eerie, spooky, uncanny
• (unusually strange in character or behaviour): odd, oddball, peculiar, strange, whacko; see also Thesaurus:insane
• (deviating from the normal): bizarre, fremd, odd, out of the ordinary, strange; see also Thesaurus:strange
• (of or pertaining to the Fates): fateful

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

weird (plural weirds)

1. (archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.
2. A prediction.
3. (obsolete, Scotland) A spell or charm.
   • 1813, Walter Scott, The Bridal of Triermain

     Thou shalt bear thy penance lone
     In the Valley of Saint John,
     And this weird shall overtake thee

4. That which comes to pass; a fact.
5. (archaic, in the plural) The Fates (personified).

Synonyms

• (fate; destiny): kismet, lot, orlay, wyrd
• (luck): fortune, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
• (prediction): foretale, foretelling, prognostication; see also Thesaurus:prediction
• (spell or charm): enchantment, incantation, cantrip
• (fact):
• (The Fates): The Norns

Derived terms

• dree one’s weird
• weirdless

Verb

weird (third-person singular simple present weirds, present participle weirding, simple past and past participle weirded)

1. (transitive) To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
2. (transitive) To warn solemnly; adjure.

Adverb

weird (not comparable)

1. (nonstandard) In a strange manner. [from 1970s]

Usage notes

As an adverb, weird is only used to modify verbs, and is always positioned after the verb it modifies. Unlike weirdly it cannot modify an adjective (as in "She was weirdly generous.") or an entire sentence (as in "Weirdly, no-one spoke up.").

Synonyms

• funny (adverb), strangely, weirdly

Anagrams

• Dwire, wider, wierd, wired, wride, wried

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English weird.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?d/

Adjective

weird (plural weirds)

1. (Quebec, Louisiana, informal) weird, bizarre.

Scots

Alternative forms

• wierd

Etymology

From Old English wyrd (“fate, destiny”), from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wird/, [wi?rd]

Noun

weird (plural weirds)

1. fate, fortune, destiny, one's own particular fate or appointed lot
2. event destined to happen, a god's decree, omen, prophecy, prediction
3. wizard, warlock, one having deep or supernatural skill or knowledge

Derived terms

Adjective

weird (comparative mair weird, superlative maist weird)

1. troublesome, mischievous, harmful

Verb

weird (third-person singular present weirds, present participle weirdin, past weirdit, past participle weirdit)

1. to ordain by fate, destine, assign a specific fate or fortune to, allot
2. to imprecate, invoke
3. to prophesy, prognosticate the fate of, warn ominously