ignoramus

Meaning

Noun

• A totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.
• A grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial.

Origin

• After the ignorant lawyer Ignoramus, the titular character in the 1615 play Ignoramus by the English playwright Georges Ruggle; from Latin ignōrāmus, the first-person plural present active indicative of ignōrō.
• Directly from Latin ignōrāmus.