Etymology

fantasise

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English fantasy ← Middle English fantasie ← Old French fantasie
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰh₂nyéti
  3. Proto-Hellenic*pʰáňňō
  4. Ancient Greekφαίνω (phaínō)
  5. Ancient Greekφαντάζω (phantázō)
  6. Ancient Greekφᾰ́ντᾰσῐς (phắntăsĭs)
  7. Ancient Greekφαντασία (phantasía)
  8. Latinphantasia
  9. Old Frenchfantasie
  10. Middle Englishfantasie
  11. Englishfantasy
  12. English todayfantasise

From fantasy + -ise.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.