{"def":{"short":"a private person, i.e., (by implication) an ignoramus (compare \"idiot\")","long":["a private person as opposed to a magistrate, ruler, king","a common soldier, as opposed to a military officer","a writer of prose as opposed to a poet","in the New Testament, an unlearned, illiterate, man as opposed to the learned and educated: one who is unskilled in any art"]},"deriv":"from G2398","pronun":{"ipa":"i.ðiˈo.tes","ipa_mod":"i.ðiˈow.te̞s","sbl":"idiōtēs","dic":"ee-thee-OH-tase","dic_mod":"ee-thee-OH-tase"},"see":["G2398"]}