pedagogue

English

noun
Definitions
  • A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
  • A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
  • (historical) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French pedagogue derived from Latin paedagogus derived from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγός (teacher, guide, pedagogue, tutor, slave with responsibility for a child) root from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (few, little, small, smallness, young, offspring).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*peh₂w-

Gloss

few, little, small, smallness, young, offspring

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Kanji

少

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