word | IDIO |
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meaning | IDIO comes from the Greek idios, meaning “one's own” or “private.” In Latin this root led to the word idiota, meaning “ignorant person”—that is, a person who doesn't take in knowledge from outside himself. And that led to a familiar English word that gets used too often, usually to describe people who aren't ignorant at all. |
Tags: mwvb::root, mwvb::unit:30, mwvb::unit:30:root, obsidian_to_anki
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