Where the Romanian word “cretin” comes from
From French.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (adj.):
Din fr. crétin.
→ French · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (s.m.):
Din fr. crétin.
→ French · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- French (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- French crétin ← Latin Christianus
- In film dialogue
- 28 times per million words · number 2,063 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- under once per million
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 2.3 - Swap in a synonym
- idiot (French), stupid (French), absurd (French), imbecil (French)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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