idiota

Borrowed from Spanish idiota, from Latin idiōta (“idiot”), from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “layman”) from ἴδιος (ídios, “private”). Doublet of idiot.

idiota (plural idiotas)

1. (derogatory, slang, US) Fool or imbecile.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fool

Borrowed from Latin idiōta, from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “layman”) from ἴδιος (ídios, “private”).

idiota m or f (masculine and feminine plural idiotes)

1. idiotic

idiota m or f by sense (plural idiotes)

1. idiot; fool

• idiotesa

• idiòcia

• “idiota” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “idiota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

From idioto +‎ -a.

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• IPA^(key): [idiˈota]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Hyphenation: i‧di‧o‧ta

idiota (accusative singular idiotan, plural idiotaj, accusative plural idiotajn)

1. idiotic

Learned borrowing from Latin idiōta, from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “layman”) from ἴδιος (ídios, “private”).

idiota m or f (plural idiotas)

1. idiotic, stupid

   Synonyms: babeco, papán, parvo, babiolo, pallouco, bolonio, estroso, doudo

idiota m or f by sense (plural idiotas)

1. idiot

• idiocia

• “idiota”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

Borrowed from Latin idiōta, from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “layman”) from ἴδιος (ídios, “private”).

• IPA^(key): /iˈdjɔ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Hyphenation: i‧diò‧ta

idiota m or f by sense (masculine plural idioti, feminine plural idiote)

1. (derogatory) idiot, moron, maroon, clot

idiota (masculine plural idioti, feminine plural idiote)

1. idiotic

• idiotaggine
• idiotamente

• idiotismo
• idiozia

• idiota in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

iodati, odiati

• iodati, odiati

• idiōtēs
• ydiōta (Medieval Latin)

From Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “person not involved in public affairs, layman”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “private”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /i.diˈoː.ta/, [ɪd̪iˈoːt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.diˈo.ta/, [id̪iˈɔːt̪ä]

idiōta m (genitive idiōtae); first declension

1. (derogatory) idiot, an ignorant, uneducated or illiterate person
2. (Medieval Latin) convert; conversus (lay brother)
3. (Medieval Latin) private person

• (uneducated person): Sometimes used in a non-derogatory sense in Medieval Latin, partially influenced by a folk etymology deriving the term from idiōma, thus “one who speaks only their own language”, i.e., the vernacular and not Latin.

First-declension noun.

• “idiota”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• idiota in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “idiota”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a connoisseur; a specialist: (artis, artium) intellegens, peritus (opp. idiota, a layman)
    
• idiota in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “idiota”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “idiota”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill

idiota m

1. genitive singular of idiots

Borrowed from French idiot, from Old French idiot, from Latin idiōta, from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “layman”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “private”).

• IPA^(key): /iˈdjɔ.ta/

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• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Syllabification: i‧dio‧ta

idiota m pers (female equivalent idiotka)

1. (derogatory) idiot

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:głupiec

2. (pathology, obsolete) person with severe mental retardation

• idiota in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• idiota in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Latin idiōta, from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “layman”) from ἴδιος (ídios, “private”).

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
• Hyphenation: i‧dio‧ta

idiota m or f (plural idiotas)

1. idiotic

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota

idiota m or f by sense (plural idiotas)

1. idiot

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota

• idiotia
• idiotice

• “idiota” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from Latin idiōta, from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “layman”) from ἴδιος (ídios, “private”).

• IPA^(key): /iˈdjota/ [iˈð̞jo.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: i‧dio‧ta

idiota m or f (masculine and feminine plural idiotas)

1. idiotic

idiota m or f by sense (plural idiotas)

1. (derogatory) idiot, moron, fool, dork, eejit
2. (derogatory) dick, jerk, schmuck, douchebag, asshole, ass, jackass, prick (i.e., a cocky or self-important individual without any foundation for it)

• Although in some contexts zonzo, bobo, tonto, menso, culero, tarado, idiota, imbécil, estúpido and pendejo may be synonyms, in most contexts they have a different degree of intensity, with zonzo having the mildest connotation, increasing in intensity in that rough order, to estúpido and pendejo, which have the most offensive meaning.

• “idiota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014