pedant
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From Middle French pedant, pedante, from Italian pedante (“a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”), associated with Italian pedagogo (“teacher, pedagogue”). Compare French pédant.
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pedant (plural pedants)
- A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
- A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
- (archaic) A teacher or schoolmaster.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 24, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book 1, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- 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.
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pedant (not comparable)
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- “pedant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “pedant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “pedant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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Borrowed from German Pedant, from French pédant, from Italian pedante.
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pedant m anim
- pedant (person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning)
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pedant (comparative pedanter, superlative pedantst)
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Inflection of pedant | ||||
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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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pedant
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Borrowed from Italian pedante.
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pedant m (plural pedants)
Polish edit
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Borrowed from French pédant, from Italian pedante.
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pedant m pers (female equivalent pedantka)
- neat freak, out-and-outer, pedant, prig, stickler
- Synonyms: porządniś, skrupulant, skrupulat
- Antonym: bałaganiarz
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pedant m or n (feminine singular pedantă, masculine plural pedanți, feminine and neuter plural pedante)
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
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indefinite | pedant | pedantă | pedanți | pedante | ||
definite | pedantul | pedanta | pedanții | pedantele | |||
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indefinite | pedant | pedante | pedanți | pedante | ||
definite | pedantului | pedantei | pedanților | pedantelor |
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Borrowed from German Pedant, from French pédant, from Italian pedante, from Ancient Greek παιδεία (paideía).
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pèdant, pedȁnt m (Cyrillic spelling пѐдант, педа̏нт)
- pedant (person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning)
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- “pedant” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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pedant c
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Nominative | pedant | pedanten | pedanter | pedanterna |
Genitive | pedants | pedantens | pedanters | pedanternas |