fantasy

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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. English todayfantasy

Noun inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible”), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to make visible”); from the same root as φάος (pháos, “light”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti, from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Doublet of fancy, fantasia, phantasia, and phantasy. Verb from Middle English fantasien, from Old French fantasier. Doublet of fancy.

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