cretin

Etymology
From, likely from , an Alpine dialectal form of , from in the lost sense of “anyone in Christendom”, often with a sense of “poor fellow”. .

Noun

 * 1)  A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.
 * 2)  An idiot.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:idiot

Translations

 * Catalan: cretí,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: creitín
 * Lithuanian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: крѐте̄н
 * Roman:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Belarusian: крэці́н, крэты́н
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: cretí
 * French:
 * Georgian: კრეტინი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: kretinacho
 * Italian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: крете́н
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: крѐте̄н
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: kritin
 * Spanish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, крети́нка


 * Ido:

Etymology
, from ; doublet of the inherited.

Noun

 * 1) idiot