cretin

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɹɛtɪn/    美 /ˈkɹiːtɪn/|/ˈkɹɛtɪn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism. archaic
  2. An idiot. broadly,derogatory
    — When I challenged the symbolism, tried to make the professor consider the book as a piece of realism, he regarded me as if I were an absolute cretin. He got very supercilious and condescending […]

词形变化

cretins plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cretinic cretinism cretinize cretinoid cretinous

词源

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.
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