Pedant

See also: pedant and pédant

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French pédant (literally “schoolmaster”), from Italian pedante, from Ancient Greek παιδεία (paideía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈdant/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ant

Noun

Pedant m (weak, genitive Pedanten, plural Pedanten, feminine Pedantin)

1. pedant (person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning)
   • 1906, Hermann Hesse, Unterm Rad [Beneath the Wheel]‎^[1], Berlin: S. Fischer:

     Man sage nicht, Schulmeister haben kein Herz und seien verknöcherte und entseelte Pedanten!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of Pedant [masculine, weak]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Pedant	die	Pedanten
genitive	eines	des	Pedanten	der	Pedanten
dative	einem	dem	Pedanten	den	Pedanten
accusative	einen	den	Pedanten	die	Pedanten

Related terms

• Pedanterie
• pedantisch
• Pedantismus

Further reading

• “Pedant”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)
• “Pedant” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Pedant” in Duden online
• “Pedant” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.