phantasia

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*bʰeh₂-“to shine”
2. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromφᾰντᾰσῐ́ᾱ“appearance, look; display, presentation; pageantry, pomp; impression, perception; image”
3. Latin · borrowed fromphantasia“fancy, fantasy; imagination”
4. English todayphantasia

Borrowed from Latin phantasia (“fancy, fantasy; imagination”), and from its etymon Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰσῐ́ᾱ (phăntăsĭ́ā, “appearance, look; display, presentation; pageantry, pomp; impression, perception; image”), from φᾰ́ντᾰσῐς (phắntăsĭs) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Φᾰ́ντᾰσῐς (Phắntăsĭs) is derived from φᾰντᾰ́ζω (phăntắzō, “to make visible, show; to become visible, appear; to imagine”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to appear; to reveal; to shine”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). The English word is a doublet of fancy, fantasia, fantasy, and phantasy.

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