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Idiot is not. It comes from a Greek word for someone who doesn’t pay attention to politics.

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A little bit of both, apparently.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot

If this is correct, then it started out as a word for private citizen and then evolved in Greek to mean ignorant.

Then in the 19th Century was coined as a medical term.

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