Etymology

fabtastic

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Today it means: Fabulous and fantastic. Full definition →

English fantastic ← Middle French fantastique ← Late Latin phantasticus
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰéh₂ti
  3. Proto-Italic*fāōr
  4. Latinfor, fā-
  5. Latinfābula
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₃ed-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₃édosder.?
  8. Latinfābulōsus
  9. Middle Englishfabulous
  10. Englishfabulousclip.
  11. Englishfab
  12. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*bʰh₂nyéti
  14. Proto-Hellenic*pʰáňňō
  15. Ancient Greekφαίνω (phaínō)
  16. Ancient Greekφαντάζω (phantázō)
  17. Ancient Greekφανταστικός (phantastikós)
  18. Late Latinphantasticus
  19. Middle Frenchfantastique
  20. Englishfantastic
  21. English todayfabtastic

Blend of fab + fantastic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.