pedant

• pædant (obsolete)

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/

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pedant (plural pedants)

1. A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
2. A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
3. (archaic) A teacher or schoolmaster.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], London: […] 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.

pedant (not comparable)

1. Pedantic.

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

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

• panted, pentad

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛdant]

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

Borrowed from French pédant, from Italian pedante.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.dant/

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• Rhymes: -ɛdant
• Syllabification: pe‧dant

pedant m pers (feminine pedantka)

1. neat freak, out-and-outer, pedant, prig, stickler

   Synonyms: porządniś, skrupulant, skrupulat

   Antonym: bałaganiarz

• pedant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pedant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From French Pedant.

pedant m or n (feminine singular pedantă, masculine plural pedanți, feminine and neuter plural pedante)

1. pedantic

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

• IPA^(key): /pědant/; /pedânt/
• 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)

• “pedant” in Hrvatski jezični portal

pedant c

1. a pedant (someone pedantic)

   Synonym: petimeter

• pedant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pedant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pedant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)