pedo-, paedo-, ped-, paed-, paido-, paid- +

1. The branch of medicine concerned with the nature and correction of disorders of the bones, joints, ligaments, or muscles.
2. One who cures deformities; an orthopedic surgeon.

Originally from Greek paideia, "child rearing"; applied specifically to childhood bone disorders.

The curing or correcting of deformities in children, or in persons generally; as with orthopedic surgery.

Of or pertaining to the whole circle of science.

The character, spirit, manner, or office of a pedagogue (teacher); the system of pedagogy (teaching).

1. Originally, a man having the oversight of a child or youth; an attendant (or slave) who led a boy to school; (now obsolete, once used exclusively in reference to ancient times).
2. A teacher of children.
3. Someone whose occupation is the instruction of children or youths; a schoolmaster, teacher, preceptor (now used by some in America and England in a more or less contemptuous or hostile sense, with the implication of pedantry, dogmatism, or severity).

Being a pedagogue was and still should be considered an honorable profession!

A pedagogue is now defined as a "schoolteacher, an educator". Originally, it came from Latin paedagogus, a slave who supervised a boy, or boys, including some degree of education. Girls were not a part of the "educational" system in classical times.

Apparently, they were "home-taught" by their mothers or female slaves to be prepared for restricted careers as wives and not for intellectual pursuits as in our modern times.

In wealthier Grecian families, there was at least one slave, especially selected for learning, whose duty it was to take care of the sons of the family during boyhood. One of these duties was to accompany his assigned boys, when they went on the public roads, to and from the gymansium, or to other places.

Due to the nature of his duties, such a slave was known, in Greek, as a paidagogos; literally, a "leader of boys", from pais, "boy", and agogos, "leader".

Sometimes the pedagog was himself a man of high learning, unfortunate enough to have been captured in warfare and subsequently sold as a slave; especially, after the Romans defeated the Greeks. In some instances, he also served as a tutor to the boys of the family.

It should be kept in mind that in its original sense, pedagogue did not mean a teacher, but described the servant who led the well-to-do Greek boy to the gymnasium (school) and then later the "better educated" and captured Greek slave was responsible for the wealthy Roman boys.

Despite the current pejorative senses that have been attached mostly by Americans to pedagogue, pedant, pedantic, and pedantry; such derogatory applications still have not included pegagogic, "of the art of teaching".

Pedophilia originally meant "a love" or "fondness" for children without any sexual deviation applications

Despite the pejorative meaning now applied to pedophilia, etymologically, it has had a moral and fully acceptable and positive refrence to anyone who loved and cared for children; such as, parents, grandparents, teachers, etc.

The more appropriate term for child molesters is paraphilia which is used in psychiatry to mean "sexual deviation" and "sexual perversion"; two major groups of sexual disorders.

A school mistress.

1. The function, profession, or practice of a pedagogue; the work or occupation of teaching; the art or science of teaching, pedagogics.
2. Instruction, discipline, training; a means or system of introductory training in teaching methods.

1. Formerly, a schoolmaster; a pedagogue; a tutor.
2. One who makes a display or affectation of learning, especially of book learning; also, an erudite person who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the use or presentation of his knowledge; a formalist or precisionist in teaching or scholarship.
3. Someone who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
4. A person who over emphasizes rules or minor details.
5. Someone who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense.

A female pedant.

Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer or description.

Something pedantic; a pedantic idea or expression.

1. The office of a teacher or schoolmaster; also, the state of being under a teacher; pupilage.
2. The ostentatiousness or formalism of a pedant; pedantry.
3. A pedantic action, expression, or trait.

The government or sway of pedants; a governing body of pedants.

Someone who rules according to a pedantic system

An ostentatious or inappropriate display of learning, formalism, denoting someone who parades his or her academic knowledge; or in the presentation or application of knowledge or learning; especially, by a teacher or scholar.

Ostentatious refers to a vulgar display of wealth and success designed to impress people.

Pedantry started out as a derivative of pedant, a noun that started out meaning "teacher" but then indicated someone who tends to brag about his or her academic knowledge in an attempt to impress other people.