ydiota

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [y.diˈoː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [i.diˈɔː.ta]
• Hyphenation: y‧di‧ō‧ta

ydiōta m (genitive ydiōtae); first declension

1. 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

First-declension noun.