pedagogue

• pædagogue, pedagog, paedagogue

From Middle English pedagoge, from Middle French pedagogue, from Latin paedagōgus, from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγός (paidagōgós), from παῖς (paîs, “child”) + ἀγωγός (agōgós, “guide”) (from ἄγω (ágō, “lead”)).[1] By surface analysis, ped- (“child”) +‎ -agogue.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛdəɡɒɡ/

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pedagogue (plural pedagogues)

1. A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     Jones chid the pedagogue for his interruption, and then the stranger proceeded.

2. A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
   • 1759 November 21 (Gregorian calendar), [Oliver] Goldsmith, “On Education”, in The Bee, a Select Collection of Essays, on the Most Interesting and Entertaining Subjects, […], new edition, number VI, London: […] W[illiam] Lane, […], published c. 1790, →OCLC, page 177:

     And novv I have gone thus far, perhaps you vvill think me ſome pedagogue, vvilling, by a vvell-timed puff, to encreaſe the reputation of his ovvn ſchool; but ſuch is not the caſe.

3. (historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

pedagogue (third-person singular simple present pedagogues, present participle pedagoguing, simple past and past participle pedagogued)

1. To teach.

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

• pedagoge

First attested circa 1371,[1] borrowed from Latin paedagōgus, from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγός (paidagōgós).

pedagogue m (plural pedagogues)

1. pedagogue (one who teaches a child)

• French: pédagogue
• → Dutch: pedagoog
• → Middle English: pedagoge
  • English: pedagogue