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