melomane

melomane

See also: mélomane

English

Etymology

From French mélomane, from mélo- + -mane;[1] equivalent to melo- +‎ -mane.

Noun

melomane (plural melomanes)

1. Synonym of melomaniac
   • 1868, [Henrietta Camilla] Jenkin, Two French Marriages, volume I, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 12:

     Monsieur de Rochetaillée was a melomane. He thought of nothing, cared for nothing but music. It was the passion of his life; he could not live without music and musicians.

   • 2000, Kermit Swiler Champa, “Painted Responses to Music: The Landscapes of Corot and Monet”, in Marsha L. Morton and Peter L. Schmunk, editors, The Arts Entwined: Music and Painting in the Nineteenth Century, Garland Publishing, Inc., Taylor & Francis Group, →ISBN, page 114:

     But what was even more important to Monet’s eventual success in devising landscape images that attracted music-modeled appreciation like Silvestre’s is the fact that the melomanes among the younger painters of the 1860s had not produced anything like a consistent painting practice modeled on music.

   • 2012, Lisa Coulthard, “The Attraction of Repetition: Tarantino’s Sonic Style”, in James Eugene Wierzbicki, editor, Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema (Routledge Music and Screen Media Series), Routledge, →ISBN, page 166:

     But music in Tarantino is also part of a larger sonic obsession that stresses the acoustic impact of dialogue, noise, atmosphere, and effects—Tarantino is an audio[-]mane as much as a melomane.

References

1. “melomane”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

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Italian

Etymology

From melo- +‎ -mane.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈlɔ.ma.ne/
• Rhymes: -ɔmane
• Hyphenation: me‧lò‧ma‧ne

Noun

melomane m or f by sense (plural melomani)

1. melomaniac

Related terms

• melomania

Further reading

• melomane in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• meno male, menomale