Etymology

fantasterrific

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Today it means: fantastic; terrific; amazingly good Full definition →

English terrific ← French terrifique ← Latin terrificus
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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 Greekφανταστικός (phantastikós)
  7. Late Latinphantasticus
  8. Middle Frenchfantastique
  9. Englishfantastic
  10. Proto-Indo-European*tres-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*troséyeti
  12. Proto-Italic*troseō
  13. Latinterreō
  14. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  15. Proto-Italic*θakos
  16. Latinterrificus
  17. Frenchterrifique
  18. Englishterrific
  19. English todayfantasterrific

Blend of fantastic + terrific.

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