cretin

Meaning

Noun

Origin

  • From French crétin ("cretin, idiot"), 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”. Christian.

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