pedante

pedante f (plural pedantes)

1. obsolete spelling of pédante

• “pedante”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Probably from Latin pedis, pēs (“foot”).

• IPA^(key): /peˈdan.te/
• Rhymes: -ante
• Hyphenation: pe‧dàn‧te

pedante m or f (plural pedanti)

1. pedantic

• pedantemente

pedante m or f by sense (plural pedanti)

1. pedant
2. (obsolete) schoolmaster, teacher

• Middle French: pedant
  • → English: pedant
  • French: pédant
    • → German: Pedant

• pedante in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• pentade

pedante

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of pedāns

pedante m (plural pedantes)

1. alternative form of pedant

From Italian pedante.

pedante m or f by sense (plural pedantes)

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

pedante m or f (plural pedantes)

1. pedantic (behaving as a pedant)

   Synonym: pernóstico

• IPA^(key): /peˈdante/ [peˈð̞ãn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: pe‧dan‧te

pedante m or f (masculine and feminine plural pedantes)

1. pedantic

pedante m or f by sense (plural pedantes)

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

• “pedante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024