fantasie

See also: Fantasie and fantasié

English

Noun

fantasie (plural fantasies)

1. Obsolete spelling of fantasy.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
     , scene i:

     Horatio ſaies tis but our fantaſie,

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch fantasie, from Middle Dutch fantasie, from Old French fantasie, from Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fan.taˈsi/, /fan.təˈsi/

Noun

fantasie (plural fantasieë)

1. fantasy (something that has been imagined)

Czech

Alternative forms

• fantazie

Etymology

Derived from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to show at the eye or the mind”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to show in light”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfantazɪjɛ]

Noun

fantasie f (related adjective fantastický)

1. imagination, fancy

Declension

Declension of fantasie (soft feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	fantasie	fantasie
genitive	fantasie	fantasií
dative	fantasii	fantasiím
accusative	fantasii	fantasie
vocative	fantasie	fantasie
locative	fantasii	fantasiích
instrumental	fantasií	fantasiemi

Related terms

• fantasta m

 

Dutch

Alternative forms

• fantaisie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch fantasie, from Old French fantasie, from Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑntaːˈzi/

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• Hyphenation: fan‧ta‧sie
• Rhymes: -i

Noun

fantasie f (plural fantasieën, diminutive fantasietje n)

1. fantasy, imagination (capacity for imagining and thinking up things)
2. fantasy (something that has been imagined)
3. fantasy, imagination (fantastic image or state, state of fantasy)

Derived terms

• fantasierijk
• fantasieloos
• fantasievol
• fantastisch

Descendants

• Afrikaans: fantasie
• Negerhollands: fantasi
• → Indonesian: fantasi

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑ̃.ta.zi/

Noun

fantasie f (plural fantasies)

1. Alternative form of fantasy

Verb

fantasie

1. inflection of fantasier:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “fantasy” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “fantasy” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fan.taˈzi.e/
• Rhymes: -ie
• Hyphenation: fan‧ta‧sì‧e

Noun

fantasie f

1. plural of fantasia

Anagrams

• Stefania

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fantasye, fantasy, fantasse, fantesy, fantsy, fansey

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French fantasie, from Latin phantasia (“an idea, notion, fancy, phantasm”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía). More at fantasy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fantaˈziː(ə)/, /ˈfantaziː(ə)/, /ˈfantəziː/, /ˈfan(t)siː/

Noun

fantasie

1. the faculty of imagination
2. something imagined; mental image, conception, notion
   • c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1440–1450 in Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 16, folio 130r:

     For sorweful ymagynacioun / Is alway hooly in my mynde […] / Such fantasies ben in myn hede / So I not what is best too doo

     For sorrowful imagination / Is always wholly in my mind […] / Such fantasies are in my head / That I don’t know what is best to do.

3. particularly, a deluded or false mental notion, fantasy
4. phantom, apparition, illusion
5. (Late Middle English) product of imagination, creative or artistic work
6. inclination, desire, liking, especially as born of whim rather than reason
7. love or amorous attachment, fancy

Related terms

• fantasien

Descendants

• English: fantasy, fancy (see there for further descendants)

References

• “fantasīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Middle High German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰσῐ́ᾱ (phantasíā).

Noun

fantasīe f

1. fantasy

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Fantasii
• German: Fantasie, Phantasie
• German: Phantasei

Old French

Alternative forms

• fantaisie

Etymology

From Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fanˈtazjə/

Noun

fantasie oblique singular, f (oblique plural fantasies, nominative singular fantasie, nominative plural fantasies)

1. fantasy (imagination; concept; idea)

Descendants

• → Middle English: fantasie, fantasye, fantasy, fantasse, fantesy, fantsy, fansey
  • English: fantasy, fancy (see there for further descendants)
• French: fantaisie (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle Dutch: fantasie
  • Dutch: fantasie, fantaisie (obsolete)
    • Afrikaans: fantasie
    • Negerhollands: fantasi
    • → Indonesian: fantasi

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fɐ̃.taˈzi.i/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fɐ̃.taˈzi.i/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /fɐ̃.taˈzi.e/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɐ̃.tɐˈzi.ɨ/

Verb

fantasie

1. inflection of fantasiar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Noun

fantasie f (plural fantasii)

1. Alternative form of fantezie

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	fantasie	fantasia		fantasii	fantasiile
genitive-dative	fantasii	fantasiei		fantasii	fantasiilor
vocative	fantasie, fantasio			fantasiilor

Spanish

Verb

fantasie

1. inflection of fantasiar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative