different between pedant vs educator

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?d??nt, IPA^(key): /?p?d?nt/

Noun

pedant (plural pedants)

1. (archaic) A teacher or schoolmaster.
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     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 emphasizes their knowledge through strict adherence to rules of vocabulary and grammar.
3. A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

pedant (not comparable)

1. Pedantic.

See also

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

Further reading

• pedant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pedant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• pedant at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• panted, pentad

Czech

Etymology

From German Pedant, from French pédant, from Italian pedante.

Noun

pedant m

1. pedant (person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning)

Declension

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

pedant (comparative pedanter, superlative pedantst)

1. pedantic

Latin

Verb

pedant

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

Middle French

Alternative forms

• pedante

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pedante.

Noun

pedant m (plural pedants)

1. teacher; tutor; educator
2. pedant

Polish

Etymology

From French pédant, from Italian pedante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.dant/

Noun

pedant m pers (feminine pedantka)

1. neat freak, out-and-outer, pedant, prig, stickler

   Synonyms: porz?dni?, skrupulant, skrupulat

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) pedantyczny

Related terms

• (nouns) pedanteria, pedantyzm, pedantyczno??
• (adjective) pedanteryjny
• (adverb) pedantycznie

Further reading

• pedant in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• pedant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French Pedant.

Adjective

pedant m or n (feminine singular pedant?, masculine plural pedan?i, feminine and neuter plural pedante)

1. pedantic

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Pedant, from French pédant, from Italian pedante, from Ancient Greek ??????? (paideía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?dant/; /pedânt/
• Hyphenation: pe?dant

Noun

pèdant, ped?nt m (Cyrillic spelling ??????, ???????)

1. pedant (person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning)

Declension

References

• “pedant” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

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