Etymology

sparktastic

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Today it means: Fantastic in a new or inventive way. Full definition →

English fantastic ← Middle French fantastique ← Late Latin phantasticus
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic*sparkō
  2. Old Englishspearca
  3. Middle Englishsparke
  4. Englishspark
  5. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*bʰh₂nyéti
  7. Proto-Hellenic*pʰáňňō
  8. Ancient Greekφαίνω (phaínō)
  9. Ancient Greekφαντάζω (phantázō)
  10. Ancient Greekφανταστικός (phantastikós)
  11. Late Latinphantasticus
  12. Middle Frenchfantastique
  13. Englishfantastic
  14. English todaysparktastic

Blend of spark + fantastic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.