idiotaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

名詞

idiota (plural idiotas)

1. (derogatory, slang, US) Fool or imbecile.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fool

参考

語源

From Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “person not involved in public affairs, layman”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “private”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ɪ.diˈoː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [i.diˈɔː.ta]

名詞

idiōta m (genitive idiōtae); first declension

1. (derogatory) idiot, an ignorant, uneducated or illiterate person
2. (Medieval Latin) convert; conversus (lay brother)
3. (Medieval Latin) private person

使用する際の注意点

• (uneducated person): Sometimes used in a further sense in Medieval Latin, partially influenced by a folk etymology deriving the term from idiōma, thus “one who speaks only their own language”, i.e., the vernacular and not Latin – which, however, meant being an illiterate.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• “idiota”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "idiota", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “idiota”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a connoisseur; a specialist: (artis, artium) intellegens, peritus (opp. idiota, a layman)
    
• “idiota”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “idiota”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “idiota”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill