cretin
I remember a professor telling me once that cretin came from Cretan and something about minotaurs and shit. But no!
ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from French crétin, from Swiss French crestin ‘Christian’ (from Latin Christianus), here used to mean ‘human being,’ apparently as a reminder that, though deformed, cretins were human and not beasts.
Which is is just charming as fuck.










