Where does “bibliomaníaco” come from?
bibliomaníaco (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese maníaco, from Latin maniacus, from Ancient Greek μανιακός, from Ancient Greek μανίᾱ, from Ancient Greek νόσος, from Ancient Greek -λογία, from Ancient Greek λόγος, from Ancient Greek λέγω — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
bibliomaníaco (Portuguese): bibliomaniac; obsessed with books
Definitions
- bibliomaniac; obsessed with books
Ancestry of “bibliomaníaco”, step by step
bibliomaníaco traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Portuguese maníaco
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | maníaco | maniac |
| 2 | Latin | maniacus | — |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | μανιακός | causing insanity |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | μανίᾱ | — |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | νόσος | sickness, disease, illness; plague; misery,... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
via Portuguese bibliomania
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | bibliomania | bibliomania a passion for owning books |
| 2 | Portuguese | -aço | Forming augmentatives; words expressing greatness... |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | -aço | — |
| 4 | Latin | -āceus | aceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to |
| 5 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 6 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 7 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |