cretin
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See also: crétin
English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From French crétin ("cretin, idiot"), likely from crestin , an Alpine dialectal form of chrétien , from Latin christiānus in the lost sense of "anyone in Christendom", often with a sense of "poor fellow". Doublet of Christian .
Pronunciation
[edit ]- (UK ) IPA (key): /ˈkɹɛtɪn/
- (US ) IPA (key): /ˈkɹiːtɪn/, /ˈkɹɛtɪn/
- Rhymes: -ɛtɪn, (US) -iːtɪn
- Homophone: Cretan (one pronunciation)
Noun
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Particularly: "pathology sense"
Particularly: "pathology sense"
cretin (plural cretins )
- (pathology ) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism. [from 1779]
- (by extension, derogatory ) An idiot.
- 1969, Irving Wallace, The Seven Minutes:
- When I challenged the symbolism, tried to make the professor consider the book as a piece of realism, he regarded me as if I were an absolute cretin. He got very supercilious and condescending [...]
Synonyms
[edit ]- See also Thesaurus:idiot
Derived terms
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]person who fails to develop due to congenital hypothyroidism
- Catalan: cretí m, cretina (ca) f
- Czech: kretén (cs) m
- Dutch: cretin (nl) m
- Finnish: kretiini (fi)
- French: crétin (fr) m
- German: Kretin (de) m
- Greek: κρετίνος (el) m (kretínos)
- Hungarian: kretén (hu)
- Ido: kretino (io)
- Irish: creitín m
- Lithuanian: kretinas (lt) m
- Polish: kretyn (pl) m
- Portuguese: cretino (pt) m
- Romanian: cretin (ro) m, cretină (ro) f
- Russian: крети́н (ru) m (kretín)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Turkish: kreten (tr)
- Ukrainian: крети́н (uk) m (kretýn)
pejorative: an idiot
- Belarusian: крэці́н m (krecín), крэты́н m (kretýn)
- Bulgarian: крете́н (bg) m (kretén)
- Catalan: cretí m
- French: crétin (fr) m
- Georgian: კრეტინი (ḳreṭini)
- German: Kretin (de) m
- Greek: κρετίνος (el) m (kretínos), ηλίθιος (el) m (ilíthios)
- Hungarian: kretén (hu)
- Ido: kretinacho
- Italian: cretino (it) m
- Lithuanian: kretinas (lt) m
- Macedonian: крете́н m (kretén)
- Polish: kretyn (pl) m, kretynka (pl) f
- Portuguese: cretino (pt)
- Romanian: cretin (ro) m, cretină (ro) f
- Russian: крети́н (ru) m (kretín), крети́нка (ru) f (kretínka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: kritin pl
- Spanish: cretino (es) m, cretina (es) f
- Ukrainian: крети́н (uk) m (kretýn), крети́нка f (kretýnka)
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Further reading
[edit ]- Cretinism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Category:Category:Cretinism on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
[edit ]Romanian
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Borrowed from French crétin , from Latin Christianus ; doublet of the inherited creștin .
Noun
[edit ]cretin m (plural cretini )
Declension
[edit ]| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | cretin | cretinul | cretini | cretinii |
| genitive-dative | cretin | cretinului | cretini | cretinilor |
| vocative | cretinule | cretinilor | ||
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