Noun: cretino
Gender: m
Hyphenation: cre‧tì‧no
| Singular m | cretino |
| Singular f | cretina |
| Plural m | cretini |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like cretino
nipotino,
monferrino,
tiburtino,
evacuato,
angloamericano,
setino,
cristiano,
saputo,
favorito,
sciabordito,
somaro,
somalo,
ostrogoto,
sicano,
ugonotto,
ragazzino,
proscritto,
comacino,
nordafricano,
nizzardo, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French crétin (“fool”), from Alpine French crestin (“Christian”), from Latin Christianus, from Ancient Greek Χριστιανός (Khristianós, “Christian”), from Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ”) (+ -ιανός (-ianós, “-ian”)), from χριστός (khristós, “anointed”), from χρίειν (khríein, “to anoint; to rub”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrey- (“to rub”). Doublet of cristiano. See: French Nouns '
crétin', Latin Nouns '
Christianus'.
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