different between pedagogue vs educator

English

Alternative forms

• pædagogue
• pedagog
• paedagogue

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French pedagogue, from Latin paedag?gus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (paidag?gós), from ???? (paîs, “child”) + ?????? (ag?gós, “guide”) (from ??? (ág?, “lead”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?d????/

Noun

pedagogue (plural pedagogues)

1. A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.

   • Jones chid the pedagogue for his interruption, and then the stranger proceeded.

2. A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
   • a. 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, essay

     And now I have gone thus far, perhaps you will think me some pedagogue, willing, by a well-timed puff, to increase the reputation of his own school

3. (historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

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Translations

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Verb

pedagogue (third-person singular simple present pedagogues, present participle pedagoguing, simple past and past participle pedagogued)

1. To teach.

References

• Pedagogue in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Middle French

Etymology

First attested circa 1371, borrowed from Latin paedag?gus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (paidag?gós).

Noun

pedagogue m (plural pedagogues)

1. pedagogue (one who teaches a child)

References

English

Etymology

From Latin ?duc?tor; synchronically analyzable as educate +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??d??ke?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??d??ke?t?/, /??dj?ke?t?/
• Hyphenation: ed?u?ca?tor

Noun

educator (plural educators)

1. A person distinguished for his/her educational work, a teacher.

Translations

Anagrams

• aeroduct, outraced

Latin

Etymology

From ?duc? (“bring up, rear, educate, train, or produce”) +? -tor (agent suffix)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e?.du?ka?.tor/, [e?d???kä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.du?ka.tor/, [?d?u?k??t??r]

Noun

?duc?tor m (genitive ?duc?t?ris, feminine ?duc?tr?x); third declension

1. educator, tutor
2. foster father

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• ?duc?tr?x

Descendants

• Catalan: educador
• Galician: educador
• Italian: educatore
• Portuguese: educador
• Spanish: educador

Verb

?duc?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of ?duc?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of ?duc?

References

• educator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• educator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• educator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French éducateur, from Latin ?duc?tor.

Noun

educator m (plural educatori, feminine equivalent educatoare)

1. educator

Declension