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pedant
A pedant is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism, accuracy and precision or one who makes an ostentatious and arrogant show of learning.
==Etymology==
The English language word "pedant" comes from the French ''pédant'' (used in 1566 in Darme & Hatzfeldster's ''Dictionnaire général de la langue française'') or its older mid-15th century Italian source ''pedante'', "teacher, schoolmaster". (Compare the Spanish ''pedante.'') The origin of the Italian ''pedante'' is uncertain, but several dictionaries suggest that it was contracted from the medieval Latin ''pædagogans,'' present participle of ''pædagogare'', "to act as pedagogue, to teach" (Du Cange). The Latin word is derived from Greek , ''paidagōgós'', "child" + "to lead", which originally referred to a slave who escorted children to and from school but later meant "a source of instruction or guidance".
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