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cretin

n.
US //ˈkɹitən// UK //kɹˈɛtɪn// cretin Archaic Vulgar
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Origin

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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