phantasticus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φανταστικός (phantastikós), from φαντάζω (phantázō) + -τικός (-tikós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pʰanˈtas.ti.kus/, [pʰän̪ˈt̪äs̠t̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fanˈtas.ti.kus/, [fän̪ˈt̪äst̪ikus]

Adjective

phantasticus (feminine phantastica, neuter phantasticum); first/second-declension adjective

1. imaginary

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	phantasticus	phantastica	phantasticum		phantasticī	phantasticae	phantastica
genitive	phantasticī	phantasticae	phantasticī		phantasticōrum	phantasticārum	phantasticōrum
dative	phantasticō	phantasticae	phantasticō		phantasticīs
accusative	phantasticum	phantasticam	phantasticum		phantasticōs	phantasticās	phantastica
ablative	phantasticō	phantasticā	phantasticō		phantasticīs
vocative	phantastice	phantastica	phantasticum		phantasticī	phantasticae	phantastica

Related terms

• phantasia
• phantasma
• phantasmaticus

Descendants

Descendants

• Asturian: fantásticu
• Catalan: fantàstic
• Middle French: fantastique
  • → English: fantastic
  • French: fantastique (see there for further descendants)
• Italian: fantastico
  • → English: fantastico
• Piedmontese: fantàstich
• Spanish: fantástico
• →⇒ Czech: fantastický
• → Hungarian: fantasztikus
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: fantástico (learned)
  • Galician: fantástico
  • Portuguese: fantástico
• →⇒ Polish: fantastyczny

References

• “phantasticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• phantasticus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• phantasticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.