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idiota
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish idiota, from Latin idi?ta (“idiot”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (idi?t?s, “layman”) from ????? (ídios, “private”).
Noun
idiota (plural idiotas)
- (derogatory, slang, US) fool or imbecile
Synonyms
- fool [WS]
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin idi?ta, from Ancient Greek ??????? (idi?t?s, “layman”) from ????? (ídios, “private”).
Adjective
idiota (masculine and feminine plural idiotes)
- idiotic
Noun
idiota m or f (plural idiotes)
- idiot; fool
Derived terms
- idiotesa
Related terms
- idiòcia
Further reading
- “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.
Esperanto
Etymology
From idioto +? -a.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /idi?ota/
- Hyphenation: i?di?o?ta
- Rhymes: -ota
Adjective
idiota (accusative singular idiotan, plural idiotaj, accusative plural idiotajn)
- idiotic
Galician
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin idi?ta, from Ancient Greek ??????? (idi?t?s, “layman”) from ????? (ídios, “private”).
Adjective
idiota m or f (plural idiotas)
- idiotic, stupid
- Synonyms: estúpido, imbécil
Noun
idiota m or f (plural idiotas)
- idiot
Related terms
- idiocia
Further reading
- “idiota” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin idi?ta, from Ancient Greek ??????? (idi?t?s, “layman”) from ????? (ídios, “private”).
Noun
idiota m or f (feminine plural idiote, masculine plural idioti)
- (derogatory) idiot, moron, maroon, clot
Adjective
idiota (masculine plural idioti, feminine plural idiote)
- idiotic
Derived terms
- idiotaggine
- idiotamente
Related terms
- idiotismo
- idiozia
Anagrams
iodati, odiati
Further reading
- idiota in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Alternative forms
- idi?t?s
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????? (idi?t?s, “person not involved in public affairs, layman”), from ????? (ídios, “private”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /i.di?o?.ta/, [?d?i?o?t?ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /i.di?o.ta/, [id?i???t??]
Noun
idi?ta m (genitive idi?tae); first declension
- (derogatory) idiot
- (Medieval Latin) indigenous, rustic, opposite of foreign.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- 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?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Latvian
Noun
idiota m
- genitive singular form of idiots
Polish
Etymology
From French idiot, from Old French idiot, from Latin idi?ta, from Ancient Greek ??????? (idi?t?s, “layman”), from ????? (ídios, “private”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /id?j?.ta/
Noun
idiota m pers (feminine idiotka)
- (derogatory) idiot
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:g?upiec
- (pathology, obsolete) person with severe mental retardation
Usage notes
In obsolete medical usage, idiota referred to severe cases of developmental disability. Milder forms were described with the words imbecyl and debil.
Declension
Derived terms
- idiotyczny
- idiotyzm
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin idi?ta, from Ancient Greek ??????? (idi?t?s, “layman”) from ????? (ídios, “private”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): [i.?ðj?.t?]
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /i.?d??j?.t?/, [i.?d???.ta]
- Hyphenation: i?dio?ta
- Rhymes: -?t?
Adjective
idiota (plural idiotas, comparable)
- idiotic
Synonyms
- (idiotic): See here
Noun
idiota m, f (plural idiotas)
- idiot
Synonyms
- (idiot): See here
Related terms
- idiotia
- idiotice
Further reading
- “idiota” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin idi?ta, from Ancient Greek ??????? (idi?t?s, “layman”) from ????? (ídios, “private”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i?djota/, [i?ð?jo.t?a]
Adjective
idiota (plural idiotas)
- idiotic
Noun
idiota m or f (plural idiotas)
- (derogatory) idiot, moron, fool, dork, eejit
- (derogatory) dick, jerk, schmuck, douchebag, asshole, ass, jackass, prick (i.e., a cocky or self-important individual without any foundation for it)
Related terms
- idiotez
- idiotizar
Further reading
- “idiota” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
idiota From the web:
diota
English
Etymology
From Latin, from Ancient Greek, “two-handled”. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
diota (plural diotas or diotae)
- (historical, Roman antiquity) A vase or drinking cup with two handles.
- 1817, Edward Daniel Clarke, Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Part 2: Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land, 4th Edition, Volume 6, page 105,
- A Greek had recently discovered a vessel of terra cotta containing some small bronze coins of Naxos, of the finest die, exhibiting the head of the bearded Bacchus in front, and a diota on the reverse, with the legend ??????: we bought ten of these.
- 1832, G. H. Smith, Appendix I: Observations on the Coinage and Currency of the Greeks, A Manual of Grecian Antiquities, page 262,
- The reasons for introducing these two devices are obvious; but the case of the diota, which is commonly placed horizontally under the feet of the owl, requires a separate explanation. Corsini says, in a dissertation of his Fasti Attici, that it is supposed by dome to refer to the amphora of oil, which was presented to the conquerors at the Panathenæa; but is himself of opinion, that it intended to denotes the manufacture of vessels in terra cotta, for which the Athenians were celebrated.
- 1865, Charles Thomas Newton Dominic Ellis Colnaghi, Travels & Discoveries in The Levant, Volume 1, page 236,
- On the shore here I found three handles of Greek unpainted diotæ, on which magistrates? names are stamped.
- 1817, Edward Daniel Clarke, Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Part 2: Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land, 4th Edition, Volume 6, page 105,
Anagrams
- Todai, aotid
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