pedant

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  1. noun One who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules.
  2. noun One who exhibits one's learning or scholarship ostentatiously.
  3. noun Obsolete A schoolmaster.

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  1. French pédant or Italian pedante (French, from Italian), possibly from Vulgar Latin *paedēns, *paedent-, present participle of *paedere, to instruct, probably from Greek paideuein, from pais, paid-, child; see pedo-2.

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  1. = D. G. Danish Swedish pedant, from French pédant = Spanish Portuguese pedante, from Italian pedante, a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant; contracted from Latin pædagogan(t-)s, present participle of pædagogare, teach, from pædagogus, a teacher, pedagogue: see pedagogue.
 

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/ˈpɛdənt/
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