cretin (someone affected by cretinism) · cretin (moron; idiot etc.)
çekim: çoğul crétins
köken: Probably a doublet of chrétien (“Christian”), from Latin Christianus (from an Alpine French dialect crestin, undergoing some Franco-Provençal-like sound changes). Specifically, likely from a dialect in the Swiss/Alpine francophone region where there was once an endemic level of cretinism. It is also linked, somewhat euphemistically, to one of the older senses of the word, referring to any…
suffering from cretinism · idiotic; dumb · mean; inconsiderate
çekim: çoğul cretinos
köken: Borrowed from French crétin (“fool”), from Alpine French crestin (“Christian”), from Latin Chrīstiānus. Doublet of cristão, Cristiano, and Cristian.
köken: Borrowed from French crétin from an Alpine dialectal form of chrétien, from Vulgar Latin christiānus in the sense of “anyone in Christendom”, often with a sense of “poor fellow”.