pedant

From Middle French pedant, pedante, from Italian pedante (“a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”), associated with Italian pedagogo (“teacher, pedagogue”). Compare French pédant.

• enPR: pĕdʹənt, IPA^(key): /ˈpɛdənt/

pedant (plural pedants)

1. (archaic) A teacher or schoolmaster.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     , vol. 1 ch. 24:

     I have in my youth oftentimes beene vexed to see a Pedant [tr. pedante] brought in, in most of Italian comedies, for a vice or sport-maker, and the nicke-name of Magister to be of no better signification amongst us.

2. A person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through strict adherence to rules of vocabulary and grammar.
3. A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.

• pedantic
• pedantry

pedant (not comparable)

1. Pedantic.

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• Pedant in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• pedant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pedant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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• panted, pentad

From German Pedant, from French pédant, from Italian pedante.

pedant m

1. pedant (person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning)

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pedant (comparative pedanter, superlative pedantst)

1. pedantic

pedant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of pedō

• pedante

Borrowed from Italian pedante.

pedant m (plural pedants)

1. teacher; tutor; educator
2. pedant

From German Pedant, from French pédant, from Italian pedante, from Ancient Greek παιδεία (paideía).

• IPA^(key): /pědant/
• Hyphenation: pe‧dant

pèdant, pedȁnt m (Cyrillic spelling пѐдант, педа̏нт)

1. pedant (person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning)

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