pedagogue English · revision 1368

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈpɛdəɡɒɡ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|pedagoge]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU) [[der|fro|pedagogue]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline) [[der|la|paedagōgus|t=slave who took children to school]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU) [[der|grc|παιδαγωγός|tr=paidagōgós]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU) from ''paîs'' (genitive ''paidós'') “child” and ''agōgós'' “leader”,^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate) from ''ágein'' “to lead”.^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A teacher of children; a schoolmaster (1387).^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Greece the ''paidagōgos'' was a slave who escorted boys to school and supervised them,^(AHD)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate) and only later a teacher.^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline) In English the original sense is used only of ancient times.^(OED 1989) The word has carried a contemptuous tone, of a dogmatic, narrow-minded teacher, since at least the time of Pepys in the 1650s.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1387 – a schoolmaster.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995)

+ * 1483 – an attendant who led a boy to school.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1583 – ''pedagogy''.^(Barnhart 1995)

+ * 1619 – ''pedagogical''.^(Barnhart 1995)

+ * 1650s – a pedantic teacher.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A teacher, especially a dull, strict or [[pedantic]] one.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A person who teaches in a dogmatic or pedantic way.^(AHD)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(history)'' A slave who took children to school in ancient Greece.^(Wiktionary)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pedagogic]]

+ * [[pedagogical]]

+ * [[pedagogy]]

+ * [[pedant]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}