Pedant

Noun

 * 1)  A teacher or schoolmaster.
 * 2) * 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 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.
 * 1) A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
 * 2) A person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary.

Related terms

 * pedantic
 * pedantry

Adjectives for Pedant
sand-blind; miserable; fiery; academic; forward ; wrangling.

Thesaurus
Babbitt, Gongorist, Marinist, Middle American, Philistine, anal character, bluestocking, bourgeois, burgher, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, euphuist, fine writer, formalist, methodologist, middle-class type, model child, organization man, parrot, perfectionist, phrasemaker, phraseman, phrasemonger, plastic person, precieuse, precieux, precisian, precisianist, precisionist, purist, rhetorician, sheep, square, teenybopper, trimmer, wordspinner, yes-man

Etymology
From pedant:, pedante: <  pedante:, of uncertain origin, traced by some sources to Latin paedagogans:, present participle of paedagogare:. Confer French pédant:.

Translations

 * Chinese: 夫子 (fūzǐ)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: pedant
 * Dutch: wijsneus, weetal
 * Esperanto: pedanto
 * Estonian: pedant, juuksekarvalõhestaja, tähenärija
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German: Pedant, Pedantin


 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: uppfullur af lærdómshroka, uppfull af lærdómshroka, smámunasamur maður, smámunasöm kona
 * Ido: pedanto
 * Japanese: 衒学者
 * Korean: 공론가 (gong ron ga)
 * Latvian: pedants
 * Lithuanian: pedantas
 * Macedonian: педант
 * Russian: педант
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: ,

Anagrams

 * panted
 * pentad