mania: [14] Greek maníā meant ‘madness’. It goes back ultimately to Indo-European *mn-, *men- ‘think’, the same source as produced English mind. It reached English via late Latin mania. Of its derivatives, maniac [17] comes from late Greek maniakós, but manic [20] is an English formation. Closely related to maníā was the Greek verb maínesthai ‘be mad’; from it was derived mainás, the name for a fanatical female follower of Dionysus, which English has adopted via Latin as maenad [16]. => maenad, manic, mind
mania (n.)
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- (1) "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 (such as nymphomania, 1775; kleptomania, 1830; megalomania, 1890).
双语例句
1. In his latter years religious mania clouded his mind.
晚年的时候，对宗教的狂热让他丧失心智。
来自柯林斯例句
2. He had a mania for fast cars.
他是个飞车狂。
来自《权威词典》
3. A letter headed'Advertising Mania'appeared in the paper.
报纸上出现了一封题为 “ 广告热”的信.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. Strictly, mania is a kind of madness which makes people violent.
