Etymology

craptabulous

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Today it means: Extremely awful. Full definition →

English fantabulous ← Middle English fabulous ← Latin fābulōsus
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  1. Old Dutchkrappen
  2. Old Frenchcrappe
  3. Middle Frenchcrape
  4. Middle Englishcrappe
  5. Englishcrap
  6. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*bʰh₂nyéti
  8. Proto-Hellenic*pʰáňňō
  9. Ancient Greekφαίνω (phaínō)
  10. Ancient Greekφαντάζω (phantázō)
  11. Ancient Greekφανταστικός (phantastikós)
  12. Late Latinphantasticus
  13. Middle Frenchfantastique
  14. Englishfantastic
  15. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
  16. Proto-Indo-European*bʰéh₂ti
  17. Proto-Italic*fāōr
  18. Latinfor, fā-
  19. Latinfābula
  20. Proto-Indo-European*h₃ed-
  21. Proto-Indo-European*h₃édosder.?
  22. Latinfābulōsus
  23. Middle Englishfabulous
  24. Englishfabulous
  25. Englishfantabulous
  26. English todaycraptabulous

Blend of crap + fantabulous.

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