Similar to the modern word villain has it's origins in villein, a peasant villager which at a certain time resisted the transition from feudalism to early capitalism.
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Not a coincidence, check this out: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/idiot
While pejorative, the word is only a weak insult
Not now we know it means liberal.
Didn't it originally mean essentially "someone disinterested in the political affairs"?