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ignoramus

ig·no·ra·mus

UK/ˌəɡ.nəˈɹæɪ.məs/ US/ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.məs/ rare dated

noun

Origin

After the ignorant lawyer Ignoramus, the titular character in the 1615 play Ignoramus by the English playwright George Ruggle; from Latin ignōrāmus (“we do not know, we are unacquainted with, we are ignorant of”), the first-person plural present active indicative of ignōrō (“to not know, to be unacquainted with, to be ignorant of”).

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