cretin

== English == === Etymology === From French crétin (“cretin, idiot”), likely 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”. Doublet of Christian. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɛtɪn/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɹiːtɪn/, /ˈkɹɛtɪn/ Rhymes: -ɛtɪn, (US) -iːtɪn Homophone: Cretan (one pronunciation) === Noun === cretin (plural cretins) (archaic, medicine) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism. [from 1779] (by extension, derogatory) An idiot. ==== Synonyms ==== See also Thesaurus:idiot ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === Cretinism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Category:Category:Cretinism on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons === Anagrams === centri-, cinter, citren, crinet == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French crétin, from Latin Christianus; doublet of the inherited creștin. === Noun === cretin m (plural cretini) idiot Synonyms: idiot, prost, tâmpit ==== Declension ====