1. An offensive term that deliberately insults someone else's intelligence: Mike's friend was considered an idiot by the other ten members, who were working on the project, because he was the only one who would not agree with how to complete the last phase.
2. Etymology: from Greek idios, "one’s own" or "private".

The Greek idiotes was simply "a person who was not in the public eye or who held no public office" and was borrowed from Greek into Latin as idiota, then into French as idiote.

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