pedant

ped·ant  (pdnt)

n.

1. One who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules.

2. One who exhibits one's learning or scholarship ostentatiously.

3. Obsolete A schoolmaster.

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

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pedant

Noun

a person who is concerned chiefly with insignificant detail or who relies too much on academic learning [Italian pedante teacher]

pedantic adj
pedantically adv

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

pedant - a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit bookworm, scholastic purist - someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words) bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student - a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

Translations

pedant [ˈpɛdənt] n → pedante m/f

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pedant [ˈpɛdənt] n → Pedant(in) m(f)