Pedant

With pedant pedantic or (French: pédantesque ) is colloquially referred to pejoratively a man who exactly according to Duden " in an exaggerated manner; all things embarrassing, petty exactness acting executive or the like. " is. Derived from the noun was pedantry or obsolete pedantry.

Word history

Etymology

The term stickler for ' Little Things, fuss pot, hair-splitting ' was MFRZ, previously not meant disparagingly about 1600 in the German language from French pedant ' school Fuchs, narrow-minded pedant '. pedante ' schoolmaster ' from Italian pedante ' educators, schoolmaster, pedant ' borrowed. However, the origin is uncertain, is also suspected mlat. * paedans (Gen. * paedantis ) to mlat present participle. * paedare, a Latinized borrowing Renaissance of Greek paide ͞ Vin ( παιδεύειν ) ' educate, teach ' to Greek pá ͞ is, gene. paidos ( παῖς, παιδός ) ' child, boy, son ' (see teacher ), and a facetious disfigurement from Italian pedagogo ' teacher educator ' by adapting to the older Italian pedante ' Pedestrian, foot soldier ' in the 14th century. The adjective pedantic for ' pedantic, petty, formally, just in an exaggerated way ' was also around 1600. Pedantry The noun for ' petty way of thinking, exaggerated accuracy, one-sidedness ' emerged in the same period from the MFRZ. and pedantry French, Italian pedanteria.

Lexical definitions

Johann Christoph Adelung called 1798 a pedant as " a scholar, and in another meaning, a person who looketh on trifles and defended by the important things. In the broadest sense it calleth every scholar without taste and manners a pedant, among which also the sticklers for the previous narrower meaning are understood. [ ... ] Fresh directs it weird enough from the Lat. pedere ago, so far the lack of manners is bey pedants often only very distinguished without a doubt. After ferrarius it Stammet of Pedaneus from, and means pedaneum Magistrum, di Under a schoolmaster, which bey the Romans did not sit on the desk, but had to teach standing. So much is certain, that this word was first used by school men who put an excessive value on their college scholarship, and will be called in the contemptuous sense also school foxes. In Lat intermediaries. is pedaneus Judex a sub- judge, and pedanea Causa a small, insignificant thing. " In the Philosophical concepts Kirchner's 1907 dictionary was as Pedant one defines " observed which certain limited forms embarrassing and therefore is unable to judge things with a free spirit and treat. Most often, the pedants are among the scholars, but they are found in every class, age and gender. "

Meyers Great Conversation Lexicon defined in 1908 a pedant:

" (Italian, from Greek paideuein, educate ), originally educator, tutor; then rigid, one-sided scholar ( schoolmaster, school Fuchs), and generalized everyone who holds petty to given forms. Pedantry or pedantry, the essence of such; pedantic, petty. "

Brockhaus ' Small conversational lexicon in 1911 as:

" Educators; a person who is dependent on external, non-essentials with scrupulous accuracy; Pedantry, pedantry, anxious clinging to rigid forms and narrow views; pedantic, petty, stiff. " "