Ancient Greek

Noun

ῐ̓δῐώτης • ‎(idiṓtēs) m ‎(genitive ῐ̓δῐώτου); first declension (Attic, Ionic)

1. a private person, one not engaged in public affairs
   1. a private soldier, as opposed to a general
2. (adjectival use) private, homely
3. commoner, plebeian
4. uneducated person, layman, amateur
5. one who is not in the know, an outsider
6. an ignorant person, idiot
7. one who is awkward, clumsy
8. (in the plural) one's countrymen

Inflection

Descendants

• Dutch: idioot
• English: idiot
• German: Idiot m
• Georgian: იდიოტი ‎(idioṭi)
• Greek: ιδιώτης m ‎(idiótis)
• Russian: идио́т m ‎(idiót)

References

• ἰδιώτης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἰδιώτης in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἰδιώτης» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G2399”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • amateur idem, page 26.
  • dabbler idem, page 193.
  • dilettante idem, page 224.
  • individual idem, page 434.
  • layman idem, page 481.
  • person idem, page 608.
  • private idem, page 642.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill