Translation
idiot
Word origin
From Greek idiotes, originally a private citizen holding no public office and so a layman, which drifted through Latin idiota into the modern insult.
- Origin
- Greek, via Latin
- Root
- idiotes
- English cognates
- idiot, idiom, idiosyncrasy
Examples
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Do not be an idiot, listen to me!
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He felt like an idiot after the mistake.
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Only an idiot would forget such an important matter.
insults the person; describes the act, so is the safer thing to say in a meeting. Like every noun of person in Esperanto it takes -ino if you need to mark it feminine, though few speakers bother here.
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