Adjective: cretino
Hyphenation: cre‧ti‧no
| Singular m. | cretino |
| Singular f. | cretina |
| Plural m. | cretinos |
| Plural f. | cretinas |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like cretino
periurbano,
desestacionalizado,
cervantesco,
atomístico,
multígrafo,
meseteño,
arriesgado,
metafórico,
extintivo,
metafísico,
megadiverso,
autotrófico,
francoarenoso,
gibareño,
eslávico,
noviolento,
inescrupuloso,
fiduciario,
petromacorisano,
carpenteriano, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
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 Adjectives '
crétin', Latin Adjectives '
Christianus'.
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