bibliomane

English

Etymology

From French bibliomane; 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).

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

Related terms

• bibliomania

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