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Idio Meaning Led Word Greek One's Private Latin

word IDIO
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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