fantasie
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Noun edit
fantasie (plural fantasies)
- 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 edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch fantasie, from Middle Dutch fantasie, from Old French fantasie, from Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía).
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fantasie (plural fantasieë)
- fantasy (something that has been imagined)
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Etymology edit
Derived from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”),[1] from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to show at the eye or the mind”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to show in light”).
Pronunciation edit
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fantasie f (related adjective fantastický)
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singular | plural | |
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nominative | fantasie | fantasie |
genitive | fantasie | fantasií |
dative | fantasii | fantasiím |
accusative | fantasii | fantasie |
vocative | fantasie | fantasie |
locative | fantasii | fantasiích |
instrumental | fantasií | fantasiemi |
Related terms edit
- fantasta m
References edit
- ^ "fantazie" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007
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Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch fantasie, from Old French fantasie, from Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía).
Pronunciation edit
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fantasie f (plural fantasieën, diminutive fantasietje n)
- fantasy, imagination (capacity for imagining and thinking up things)
- fantasy (something that has been imagined)
- fantasy, imagination (fantastic image or state, state of fantasy)
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fantasie f (plural fantasies)
- Alternative form of fantasy
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fantasie
- inflection of fantasier:
Further reading edit
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fantasie f
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Middle English edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French fantasie, from Latin phantasia (“an idea, notion, fancy, phantasm”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía). More at fantasy.
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fantasie
- the faculty of imagination
- 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.
- c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1440–1450 in Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 16, folio 130r:
- particularly, a deluded or false mental notion, fantasy
- phantom, apparition, illusion
- (Late Middle English) product of imagination, creative or artistic work
- inclination, desire, liking, especially as born of whim rather than reason
- love or amorous attachment, fancy
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Descendants edit
References edit
- “fantasīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Middle High German edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰσῐ́ᾱ (phantasíā).
Noun edit
fantasīe f
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Etymology edit
From Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía).
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fantasie oblique singular, f (oblique plural fantasies, nominative singular fantasie, nominative plural fantasies)
- fantasy (imagination; concept; idea)
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fantasie
- inflection of fantasiar:
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fantasie f (plural fantasii)
- Alternative form of fantezie
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singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (o) fantasie | fantasia | (niște) fantasii | fantasiile |
genitive/dative | (unei) fantasii | fantasiei | (unor) fantasii | fantasiilor |
vocative | fantasie, fantasio | fantasiilor |
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Verb edit
fantasie
- inflection of fantasiar: