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idiota
(Adjective, Noun)
"idiotic;" "idiot"
13th cent. From Latin idiota 'id.,' borrowed from Greek ἰδιώτης (idiótes) "uneducated person," "commoner." From ἴδιος (ídios) "private."
From Proto-Indo-European *su̯o-i̯o- "ourself." Developed from the reflexive pronoun *su̯e- (see se (1)).
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