Adjective: crétin
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | crétin |
| Singular f. | crétine |
| Plural m. | crétins |
| Plural f. | crétines |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like crétin
indifférent,
cohérent,
aspérifolié,
serein,
seyant,
second,
babillard,
savant,
satané,
satiné,
saturé,
défraîchi,
spaghettifié,
saoudi,
salaud,
salant,
sciant,
schleu,
évanescent,
écartelé, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
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 Christian man, peasant, simple or regular person, and in some cases by extension a "poor/unfortunate fellow" (compare also benêt, innocent). Compare the senses of other Romance languages such as Romansh carstgaun (“person”), Italian cristiano (“guy”), Neapolitan crestiano, Sicilian cristianu (“person”), Portuguese cristão (“soul, person”), Spanish cristiano (“guy”), Romanian creștin (“person, individual”). Outside Romance languages compare Russian крестья́нин (krestʹjánin). See: Latin Adjectives '
Christianus', Italian Adjectives '
cristiano', Portuguese Adjectives '
cristão', Spanish Adjectives '
cristiano', Romanian Adjectives '
creștin'.
Verbs referencing "crétin"
Italian Adjectives
cretino, Portuguese Adjectives
cretino, Spanish Adjectives
cretino, Catalan Adjectives
cretí.
Translations