idiot Copy link Outline 2. bucco, ōnis, m.3. homo excors • idiot: 1. fătuus (strictly, one quite incapable): a fool I believe I am: but I don't think I am an i., egomet me stultum existimo; f. me non opinor, Poet. in Isid. Or. 10, 246: in gen. sense = foolish: Join: fatuus et amens, Cic. Deiot. 7, 21. 2. bucco, ōnis, m.: cf. Pl. Bacc. 5, 1, 2, stulti, stolidi, fatui, fungi, bardi, blenni (drivellers), buccones: Apul. 3. homo excors: v. mad, insane.