pedant
Middle French
noun
Definitions
- teacher; tutor; educator
- pedant
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian pedante (pedant, a teacher, schoolmaster).
Origin
Italian (Fiorentino)
pedante
Gloss
pedant, a teacher, schoolmaster
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- outpedant English
- pedancy English
- pedant English
- pedantic English
- pedantical English
- pedantise English
- pedantism English
- pedantize English
- pedantly English
- pedantocracy English
- pedantocrat English
- pedis Latin
- pedantaggine Italian
- pedante Italian
- pedanteggiare Italian
- pedantemente Italian
- pedanteria Italian
- pedantesco Italian
- pedantessa Italian