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noun a person of subnormal intelligence
originFrom French crétin (“cretin, idiot”), likely from crestin, an Alpine dialectal form of chrétien, from Latin christiānus in the lost sense of “anyone in Christendom”, often with a sense of “poor fellow”. Doublet of Christian.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0