pedagogue

• pædagogue
• pedagog
• paedagogue

Borrowed from Middle French pedagogue, from Latin paedagogus, from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγός (paidagōgós), from παῖς (paîs, “child”) + ἀγωγός (agōgós, “guide”) (from ἄγω (ágō, “lead”)).[1]

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pedagogue (plural pedagogues)

1. A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     Jones chid the pedagogue for his interruption, and then the stranger proceeded.

2. 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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Goldsmith to this entry?)

3. (historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

• demagogue
• galactagogue
• ochlagogue
• pedagogy
• synagogue

pedagogue (third-person singular simple present pedagogues, present participle pedagoguing, simple past and past participle pedagogued)

1. To teach.

• pedagogue in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

First attested circa 1371[1], borrowed from Latin paedagogus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek.

pedagogue m (plural pedagogues)

1. pedagogue, one who teaches a child