English

IDiot

Blend of ID (“intelligent design”) + idiot.

A compound of ID ‘intelligent design’ + idiot

New Latin id ‘it’

English ID

Proto-Indo-European *swé ‘self’

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Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης ‘a private citizen’

Latin idiota ‘idiot’

Old French idiote

Middle English idiote

English idiot

Today it means

noun A proponent of intelligent design.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.