bibliomane

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English

Etymology

From French bibliomane;[1] equivalent to biblio- +‎ -mane.

Noun

bibliomane (plural bibliomanes)

  1. Synonym of bibliomaniac
    • 1879 January 11, “Bibliomania in 1878”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume XLVII, London: , page 46, column 1:
      A very significant fact is that the Greek and Latin classics in the choicest editions, unless indeed they have the good luck to be in Derome or Trautz-Bauzonnet bindings, are not looked at by the bibliomanes of the period.
    • 1966, Bibliotheca Medica: Physician for Tomorrow, the Harvard Medical School, page 78:
      To the bibliomanes of my generation, it comes as a shock to learn how much of a book can be punched onto a tape and clicked off by a computer.
    • 2001, The Book Collector, volume 50, page 136:
      (A companion piece by Brenda Scragg on the bibliomane William Ford is, alas, but a shadow of the rewarding study of this collector-turned-dealer which Anthony Lister published in the book collector in 1989.)
    • 2007, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, volume 122, page 245, column 1:
      The ever-present danger was that the cultivated amateur would overstep the bounds of civilized interest into the domain of obsession; the line between the bibliophile and the bibliomane was never quite as firmly drawn as Nodier would have liked: “There is only a single attack of nerves separating the bibliophile from the bibliomaniac” (Du bibliophile au bibliomane, il n’y a qu’une crise”; 102).

References

  1. ^ “bibliomane, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Italian

Etymology

From biblio- +‎ -mane.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /biˈbljɔ.ma.ne/, /bi.bliˈɔ.ma.ne/
  • Rhymes: -ɔmane
  • Hyphenation: bi‧bliò‧ma‧ne, bi‧bli‧ò‧ma‧ne

Noun

bibliomane m or f by sense (plural bibliomani)

  1. bibliomaniac

Further reading

  • bibliomane in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  • bibliomane in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • bibliomane in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • bibliòmane in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • biblïòmane in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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