fantaisie
French
Alternative forms
- phantaisie
Etymology
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
- IPA(key): /fɑ̃.tɛ.zi/, /fɑ̃.te.zi/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -i
Noun
fantaisie f (plural fantaisies)
- fantasy (something fanciful)
- fantasy (something created by the imagination)
- imagination
- (music) fantasia
Descendants
- → Persian: فانتزی (fântezi)
- → Romanian: fantezie
- → Turkish: fantezi
- → Vietnamese: phăng-tê-di
Further reading
- “fantaisie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- enfaîtais, faisaient