ydiota

Latin edit

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