pedant

See also: pédant and Pedant

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: pĕdʹənt, IPA^(key): /ˈpɛdənt/

Noun

pedant (plural pedants)

1. (archaic) A teacher or schoolmaster.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: 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 the use of vocabulary.
3. (slang) A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.

Usage notes

• Do not confuse pedant with pendant or pennant.

Derived terms

• pedantic
• pedantry

Translations

person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夫子 (zh) (fūzǐ), 學究 (zh), 学究 (zh) (xuéjiū)

• Czech: pedant m
• Danish: pedant
• Dutch: wijsneus (nl) m, f, weetal (nl) m, f
• Esperanto: pedanto (eo)
• Estonian: pedant (et), juuksekarvalõhestaja, tähenärija
• Finnish: saivartelija (fi), viisastelija (fi), pedantti (fi)
• French: pédant (fr) m
• German: Pedant (de) m, Pedantin f
• Greek: σχολαστικός (el) m (scholastikós)
• Icelandic: uppfullur af lærdómshroka m, uppfull af lærdómshroka f, smámunasamur maður m, smámunasöm kona f

• Ido: pedanto (io)
• Italian: pedante (it) m
• Japanese: 衒学者 (げんがくしゃ, gengakusha)
• Korean: 공론가 (gongnonga)
• Latvian: pedants
• Lithuanian: pedantas
• Macedonian: педант m (pedánt)
• Portuguese: pedante (pt) m, f
• Russian: педа́нт (ru) m (pedánt), педа́нтка (ru) f (pedántka)
• Spanish: pedante (es) m
• Swedish: pedant (sv) c

person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary

• Finnish: viisastelija (fi), saivartelija (fi)
• French: pédant (fr)

• Italian: cervellone m
• Portuguese: pedante (pt) m, f

Adjective

pedant (not comparable)

1. pedantic

See also

• pedant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pedant in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

Further reading

• pedant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• pedant in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• “pedant” at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• panted, pentad

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Czech

Etymology

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

Noun

pedant m

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

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	pedant	pedanty
genitive	pedanti	pedante
dative	pedanta	pedanti
accusative	pedantů	pedantovi
vocative	pedantovi	pedantech
locative	pedantům	pedantem
instrumental	pedanta	pedanty

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adjective

pedant (comparative pedanter, superlative pedantst)

1. pedantic

Inflection of pedant
uninflected	pedant
inflected	pedante
comparative	pedanter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		pedant	pedanter	het pedantst het pedantste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	pedante	pedantere	pedantste
	n. sing.	pedant	pedanter	pedantste
	plural	pedante	pedantere	pedantste
definite		pedante	pedantere	pedantste
partitive		pedants	pedanters	—

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Latin

Verb

pedant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of pedō

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• pedante

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pedante.

Noun

pedant m (plural pedants)

1. teacher; tutor; educator
2. pedant

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pèdant, pedȁnt m (Cyrillic spelling пѐдант, педа̏нт)

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

Declension

Declension of pedant

	singular	plural
nominative	pèdant	pedanti
genitive	pedanta	pèdanātā
dative	pedantu	pedantima
accusative	pedanta	pedante
vocative	pedante	pedanti
locative	pedantu	pedantima
instrumental	pedantom	pedantima

References

• “pedant” in Hrvatski jezični portal