noun, feminineplural: ballettomanies
alternative spelling of balletomanie
“A quel besoin nouveau répond ce regain de ballettomanie ?”
From ballet + -manie. Although the spelling balletomanie is the most common nowadays, the spelling ballettomanie 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 cognat