Cretin

Titus 1:12-13 New International Version (NIV)

12 One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.”[a] 13 This saying is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith

Footnotes:

Titus 1:12 From the Cretan philosopher Epimenides

In this passage the term Cretans refers to people from Crete.

The homophone cretin is:

cre·tin
/ˈkrētn/
noun
  1. 1.
    INFORMAL•OFFENSIVE
    a stupid person (used as a general term of abuse).
  2. 2.
    DATED•MEDICINE
    a person who is deformed and mentally handicapped because of congenital thyroid deficiency.
Tip
Similar-sounding words
cretin is sometimes confused with cretan

Word Origin for cretin

C18: from French crétin, from Swiss French crestin, from Latin Chrīstiānus Christian , alludingto the humanity of such people, despite theirhandicaps

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