The story
- Late Latin · derived fromphantasticus“imaginary”
- Italian · borrowed fromfantastico“fantastic”
- English todayfantastico
From Italian fantastico (“fantastic”), from Late Latin phantasticus (“imaginary”). Doublet of fantastic and fantastique.
Words from the same roots
Late Latinphantasticus all →
fantastic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.