Etymology

fantasist

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Today it means: One who creates fantasies. Full definition →

English fantas(y) ← 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. Englishfantas(y)
  12. English todayfantasist

From fantas(y) + -ist.

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