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idiota

idiota · m

an uneducated

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Where it lives

Ad Martyras 1 · 6.72/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 2 · 1.84/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Adversus Praxean 1 · 0.68/10k
De Architectura 3 · 0.52/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ĭdĭōta — Lewis & Short

ĭdĭōta, ae, m., = i)diw/ths,

I an uneducated, ignorant, inexperienced, common person (cf. rudis): quidni et tu idem illitteratum me atque idiotam diceres? Lucil. ap. Non. 38, 24: quae non modo istum hominem ingeniosum atque intelligentem, verum etiam quemvis nostrum, quos iste idiotas appellat, delectare possent, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 2, § 4; cf. id. Pis. 26, 62: ludos nobis idiotis relinquet, id. ib. 27, 65: posteaquam rem paternam ab idiotarum divitiis ad philosophorum regulam perduxit, id. Sest. 51, 110: quoniam respondere nos tibi non quimus, quos idiotas et rudes vocas, Gell. 1, 2, 6: idiotae, the common throng, the fickle mass, Quint. 8, 3, 22.

In the wild

idiotae Tertullian, Ad Martyras 1
idiota Vitruvius, De Architectura 6.8.10.p1
idiotis Tertullian, De Pudicitia 16
idiotis Vitruvius, De Architectura 6.8.10.p1
idiotas Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.2.6
idiotas Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.4

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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