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Latin
Noun
ydiōta m (genitive ydiōtae); first declension
- medieval spelling of idiōta
1077, Arnulf of Milan, Gesta Archiepiscoporum Mediolanensium, section 3.17; republished as C. Bethmann, W. Wattenbach, editors, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptorum, volume 8, 1848, page 22:ut ius ecclesiasticum doctor exhibeat ecclesiasticus, non ydiota laycus- that a doctor of the church may expound ecclesiastical law, and not an ignorant layman