ydiota

Latin

Noun

ydiōta m (genitive ydiōtae); first declension

  1. medieval spelling of idiōta
    • 1077, Arnulf of Milan, Gesta Archiepiscoporum Mediolanensium, section 3.17; republished as C. Bethmann, W. Wattenbach, editors, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptorum, volume 8, 1848, page 22:
      ut ius ecclesiasticum doctor exhibeat ecclesiasticus, non ydiota laycus
      that a doctor of the church may expound ecclesiastical law, and not an ignorant layman
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