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- CRETIN Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
In Franco-Provençal (the Romance speech of French Switzerland and adjacent areas of France), a person affected by hypothyroidism was called a cretin, literally, “wretch, innocent victim ” The word meant simply “Christian” and emphasized the hypothyroid victim's basic humanity
- What Is a Cretin? How a Medical Term Became a Slur
In the Alpine valleys of Valais, Savoie, and Dauphiné, “crestin” was an ordinary greeting, roughly equivalent to “my good fellow ” When villagers used it to describe a child born with the condition, it was an act of compassion
- Congenital hypothyroidism due to iodine deficiency - Wikipedia
Because of its pejorative connotations in popular speech, current usage among health care professionals has abandoned the noun "cretin" referring to a person The noun cretinism, referring to the condition, still occurs in medical literature and textbooks but its use is waning
- original meaning of ‘cretin’: ‘Christian’, ‘human being’
The French word crétin is an adaptation of Swiss patois crestin, creitin, from Latin Christianum, meaning Christian In this case, it means human being as distinguished from the brutes, the sense being that these beings are really human, though so deformed physically and mentally According to Bruyn and Poser, the word also reflects
- Cretin - definition of cretin by The Free Dictionary
The cretin was the one variety of the human species with which the commandant had not yet come in contact The cretin whom you have just seen, not having returned to his house, had not been taken away, so that the next morning he was the sole remaining example of his species in the village
- crétin - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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
- The shocking, forgotten history of cretinism - Big Think
Yet the word ‘cretin’ has a very real, very shocking and at that time still very recent history, and indeed a link to the Alps When Haddock used the term, the age-old blight of cretinism had
- CRETIN | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
CRETIN meaning: 1 an offensive word for a person who is considered to be very stupid or unpleasant 2 an offensive… Learn more
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