fantaisie
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French
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French fantaisie, fantasie (“imagination”), from Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía), of φαντάζεσθαι (phantázesthai), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνεσθαι (phaínesthai, “appear”). Doublet of fantasy.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /fɑ̃.tɛ.zi/ ~ /fɑ̃.te.zi/
Audio: (file) - Homophones: fantaisies, fantasy, phantaisie, phantaisies
- Rhymes: -i
Noun
[edit]fantaisie f (plural fantaisies)
- fantasy (something fanciful)
- fantasy (something created by the imagination)
- idea, desire, feeling
- imagination
- (music) fantasia
Descendants
[edit]- → Persian: فانتزی (fântezi)
- → Romanian: fantezie
- → Turkish: fantezi
- → Vietnamese: phăng-tê-di
Further reading
[edit]- “fantaisie” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie françoise, 4th Edition (1762).
- “fantaisie” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
- “fantaisie” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-).
- “fantaisie” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “fantaisie” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “fantaisie” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
- “fantaisie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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