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語源

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

発音

• enPR: pĕdʹənt, IPA^(key): /ˈpɛdənt/

名詞

pedant (複数形 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, 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.

派生語

形容詞

pedant (not comparable)

1. Pedantic.

参考

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

Further reading

• “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.

アナグラム

• panted, pentad

Latin

動詞

pedant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of pedō