pedante

See also: pédante

French

Noun

pedante f (plural pedantes)

1. Obsolete spelling of pédante.

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

pedante (plural pedanti)

1. pedantic

Derived terms

• pedantemente

Noun

pedante m or f by sense (plural pedanti)

1. pedant
2. (obsolete) schoolmaster, teacher

Descendants

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• pentade

Latin

Participle

pedante

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of pedāns

Middle French

Noun

pedante m (plural pedantes)

1. Alternative form of pedant

Portuguese

Etymology

From Italian pedante.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /peˈdɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /peˈdɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /peˈdɐ̃.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɨˈdɐ̃.tɨ/ [pɨˈðɐ̃.tɨ]

Noun

pedante m or f by sense (plural pedantes)

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

Adjective

pedante m or f (plural pedantes)

1. pedantic (behaving as a pedant)

   Synonym: pernóstico

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

pedante m or f (masculine and feminine plural pedantes)

1. pedantic

Noun

pedante m or f by sense (plural pedantes)

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

Further reading

• “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], 2024 December 10