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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.

pedagogue (plural pedagogues)

  1. A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
    • 2023 September 24, HarryBlank, “Working Wonders”, in SCP Foundation‎[1], archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
      "No, that won't work." Reynders sighed, not in frustration — she was an excellent pedagogue, and never got frustrated while instructing — but in mental exhaustion. This project was testing the limits of what she could handle, in her state, though that was nothing compared to the number it was doing on Udo's head. "But it doesn't need to work. ATCP doesn't ossify, that's why it's armageddon-proof. We'd never be able to make this function if we were using standard protocols."
  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.
  3. (historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

teacher

pedant

slave

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

  1. To teach.

  2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “pedagogue”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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)
  1. ^ Etymology and history of “pedagogue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012