mythomane

English

Etymology

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French mytho-

French -mane

French mythomanebor.

English mythomane

Borrowed from French mythomane. By surface analysis, mytho- +‎ -mane.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪθəˌmeɪn/, /ˈmɪθəʊˌmeɪn/

Noun

mythomane (plural mythomanes)

1. Someone who suffers from mythomania.
   • 2019, Louis Theroux, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television, London: Macmillan, page 384:

     Maybe because I was working on the programmes at the same time, I found myself thinking about parallels between Jimmy Savile and L. Ron Hubbard. Both were mythomanes, inventing and exaggerating to embellish their own careers and pedigrees.

Synonyms

• mythomania
• mythomaniac

French

Etymology

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French mytho-

French -mane

French mythomane

From mytho- +‎ -mane m or f by sense. First attested in 1905 coined by Ernest Dupré.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.tɔ.man/

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Noun

mythomane m or f by sense (plural mythomanes)

1. mythomaniac
2. liar, fabulist

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Related terms

• mythomanie f

Descendants

• → Italian: mitomane m
• → Greek: μυθομανής (mythomanís)

Further reading

• “mythomane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.