ped‧ant /ˈpednt/
noun [countable][
Date: 1500-1600;
Language: French;
Origin: pédant, from Italian pedante, perhaps from Latin paedagogus; ⇒ pedagogy]
someone who pays too much attention to rules or to small unimportant details, especially someone who criticizes other people in an extremely annoying way:
‘That’s not exactly what it means.’ ‘Pedant.’—pedantry noun [uncountable] [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲