paedagogia

Forms

paedagōgīa f (genitive paedagōgīae); first declension^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγία (paidagōgía, “education, attendance on boys”),^[2][3][4] a noun from παιδαγωγός (paidagōgós), the source of Latin paedagogus.^[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

The eLexicon Polonorum quotes it from a Polish record of 1492, meaning teaching, of the place where a cleric taught a pupil.^[3]

Semantic evolution

It meant instruction and education in Church Latin.^[5] In Neo-Latin it was the art of teaching and the work of a teacher: a school ordinance from Laubach divides all paedagogia into teaching and the shaping of character.^[2] It was also used for a teacher's authority over pupils, for a teaching post and, in the Laubach ordinance, for the course of a class.^[2] A Polish chronicle uses it for the obedience one monastery owed another.^[3]

English took pedagogy in the 1580s from French pédagogie, which goes back to this Latin word.^[4]

Timeline

• 1492 – A Polish record uses it for teaching.^[3]
• 1580s – English borrows pedagogy by way of French.^[4]

Meanings

Noun

1. Instruction, teaching, education.^[5][3]
2. (New Latin) Pedagogy, the art of teaching; a teacher's work.^[2]
3. (New Latin) A teacher's authority over pupils.^[2]
4. (New Latin) A teaching post; a course of study.^[2]
5. (Medieval Latin) Obedience owed to a superior.^[3]

Related words

• paedagogus
• paedagogicus
• English pedagogy

References

1. ^ Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f Ramminger, Johann, Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, www.neulatein.de
3. ^ a b c d e f Lexicon mediae et infimae Latinitatis Polonorum (1953–), Kraków: Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN; electronic ed. elexicon.scriptores.pl
4. ^ a b c d Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
5. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson