მეგალომანია • (megalomania) =megalomania=μεγαλομανία
ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
megalomania (n.) Look up megalomania at Dictionary.com
"delusions of greatness," 1866, from French mégalomanie; see megalo- + mania "madness."
megalo- Look up megalo- at Dictionary.com
word-forming element meaning "large, great, exaggerated," from comb. form of Greek megas "large, great" (stem megal-); see mickle.
mania (n.) Look up mania at Dictionary.com
late 14c., "mental derangement characterized by excitement and
delusion," from Late Latin mania "insanity, madness," from Greek mania
"madness, frenzy; enthusiasm, inspired frenzy; mad passion, fury,"
related to mainesthai "to rage, go mad," mantis "seer," menos "passion,
spirit," all from PIE *men- "to think, to have one's mind aroused, rage,
be furious" (see mind (n.)). Sense of "fad, craze" is 1680s, from
French manie in this sense. Sometimes nativized in Middle English as
manye. Used since 1500s (in imitation of Greek) as the second element in
compounds expressing particular types of madness (cf. nymphomania,
1775; kleptomania, 1830; megalomania, 1890).
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