noun, masculine/feminineplural: ballettomanes
alternative spelling of balletomane
“Les « pas de deux » de Nijinsky et de Pavlova tiennent du prodige, et les « ballettomanes » du Théâtre Michel n’ont pas le souvenir d’avoir jamais applaudi un couple de cette valeur.”
Related: ballettomanie
From ballet + -mane. Although the spelling balletomane is the most common nowadays, the spelling ballettomane may be justified by analogy with other derivatives of nouns ending in the diminutive suffix -et, which commonly insert an additional t before vowel-initial suffixes (for example, sonnettiste, motettiste, juillettiste, cornettiste, flageolettiste, galoubettiste). Indeed, ballet derives from Italian balletto, a diminutive of ballo, formed with the Italian suffix -etto, which is a cognate o