pedagogue

Meanings

Noun

• A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
• 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.
• A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

Verb

• To teach.

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French pedagogue, from Latin paedagōgus, from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγός, from παῖς + ἀγωγός (from ἄγω).