Etymology

nonfantastic

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Today it means: Not having the nature of fantasy. Full definition →

English fantastic ← Middle French fantastique ← Late Latin phantasticus
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Germanic*ne
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  5. Proto-Germanic*ainaz
  6. Proto-Germanic*nainaz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*nain
  8. Old Englishnān
  9. Middle Englishnon
  10. Old Englishnān
  11. Old Englishnān-
  12. Middle Englishnon-
  13. Englishnon-
  14. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*bʰh₂nyéti
  16. Proto-Hellenic*pʰáňňō
  17. Ancient Greekφαίνω (phaínō)
  18. Ancient Greekφαντάζω (phantázō)
  19. Ancient Greekφανταστικός (phantastikós)
  20. Late Latinphantasticus
  21. Middle Frenchfantastique
  22. Englishfantastic
  23. English todaynonfantastic

From non- + fantastic.

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