Pedantic,Pedantic Definition-A pedant is a person who is overly concerned with formalism and precision, or who makes a show of his learning.
pedantic-ped·ant (ped′’nt)
noun
1. a person who puts unnecessary stress on minor or trivial points of learning, displaying a scholarship lacking in judgment or sense of proportion
2. a narrow-minded teacher who insists on exact adherence to a set of arbitrary rules
3. Obsolete a schoolmaster
The English language word “pedant” comes from the French pédant (used in 1566 in Darme & Hatzfeldster’s Dictionnaire général de la langue française) or its older mid-15th Century Italian source pedante, “teacher, schoolmaster”. (Compare the Spanish pedante.) The origin of the Italian pedante is uncertain, but multiple dictionaries suggest that it was contracted from the mediaeval Latin pædagogans, present participle of pædagogare, “to act as pedagogue, to teach” (Du Cange). The Latin word is derived from Greek παιδαγωγός, paidagōgós, παιδ- “child” + ἀγειν “to lead”, which originally referred to a slave who escorted children to and from school but later meant “a source of instruction or guidance”.
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