pedant

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From Middle French pedant, pedante, from Italian pedante (“a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”), associated with unrelated Italian pedagogo (“teacher, pedagogue”). Compare French pédant.

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مُتَحَذْلِق (mutaḥaḏliq) — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Bulgarian: педант (pedant) — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Catalan: pedant — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Chinese Mandarin: 夫子 (fūzǐ) — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Chinese Mandarin: 老學究 /老学究 (lǎoxuéjiū) — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Chinese Mandarin: 學究 /学究 (xuéjiū) — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Czech: pedant — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Danish: pedant — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Dutch: wijsneus — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Dutch: weetal — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Esperanto: pedanto — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Estonian: pedant — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Estonian: juuksekarvalõhestaja — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Estonian: tähenärija — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Finnish: saivartelija — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Finnish: viisastelija — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Finnish: pedantti — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• French: pédant — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• French: pédante — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• German: Pedant — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• German: Pedantin — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Greek: σχολαστικός (scholastikós) — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Hebrew: דַּקְדְּקָן (dakd'kán) — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Icelandic: uppfullur af lærdómshroka — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Icelandic: uppfull af lærdómshroka — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Icelandic: smámunasamur maður — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Icelandic: smámunasöm kona — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Ido: pedanto — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Italian: pedante — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Japanese: 衒学者 (gengakusha) — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Korean: 공론가 (gongnon'ga) — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Latvian: pedants — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Lithuanian: pedantas — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Macedonian: педа́нт (pedánt) — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Norwegian Bokmål: pedant — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Norwegian Nynorsk: pedant — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Polish: pedant — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Polish: pedantka — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Portuguese: pedante — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Russian: педа́нт (pedánt) — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Russian: педа́нтка (pedántka) — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Spanish: pedante — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Swedish: pedant — person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
• Arabic: مُتَشَدِّق (mutašaddiq) — person who emphasizes their knowledge through strict adherence to rules of vocabulary and grammar
• Finnish: viisastelija — person who emphasizes their knowledge through strict adherence to rules of vocabulary and grammar
• Finnish: saivartelija — person who emphasizes their knowledge through strict adherence to rules of vocabulary and grammar
• French: pédant — person who emphasizes their knowledge through strict adherence to rules of vocabulary and grammar
• French: pédante — person who emphasizes their knowledge through strict adherence to rules of vocabulary and grammar
• Greek: δοκησίσοφος (dokisísofos) — person who emphasizes their knowledge through strict adherence to rules of vocabulary and grammar
• Italian: cervellone — person who emphasizes their knowledge through strict adherence to rules of vocabulary and grammar
• Italian: cervellona — person who emphasizes their knowledge through strict adherence to rules of vocabulary and grammar
• Portuguese: pedante — person who emphasizes their knowledge through strict adherence to rules of vocabulary and grammar