Pedant
German edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French pédant (literally “schoolmaster”), from Italian.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Pedant m (weak, genitive Pedanten, plural Pedanten, feminine Pedantin)
- 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 edit
Declension of Pedant [masculine, weak]
Further reading edit
- “Pedant” in Duden online