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Where does “monomaniac” come from?

monomaniac (English) comes from French monomaniaque, from French maniaque, from Latin maniacus, from Ancient Greek μανιακός, from Ancient Greek μανίᾱ, from Ancient Greek νόσος, from Ancient Greek -λογία, from Ancient Greek λόγος — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

monomaniac (English): A person who is obsessed with a single thing, to...

Definitions

  1. A person who is obsessed with a single thing, to...

Ancestry of “monomaniac”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmonomaniaquemonomaniacal; monomaniac
2Frenchmaniaquemaniacal; maniac
3Latinmaniacus—
4Ancient Greekμανιακός—
5Ancient Greekμανίᾱ—
6Ancient Greekνόσοςsickness, disease, illness; plague; misery,...
7Ancient Greek-λογίαBase for nouns denoting the study of something,...
8Ancient GreekλόγοςThat which is said: word, sentence, speech,...
9Ancient GreekλέγωI put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,...
10Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
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