fantaisie
French edit
Alternative forms 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.