Definizione monolingua

pedant

pedant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of ped?

pedant (plural pedants)

1. (obsolete) A teacher or schoolmaster.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, vol. 1 ch. 24:

     I have in my youth oftentimes beene vexed to see a Pedant [tr. pedante] brought in, in most of Italian comedies, for a vice or sport-maker, and the nicke-name of Magister to be of no better signification amongst us.

2. A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
3. A person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary.

Definizione dizionario pedant

pedante

pignolo

Altri significati:

rural scholar or pedagogue

(obsolete) A teacher or schoolmaster.

A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.

A person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary.

person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning