Etymology

ultrafantastic

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Today it means: Extremely fantastic. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  2. Latinūls
  3. Latinultrā
  4. Englishultra-
  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 todayultrafantastic

From ultra- + fantastic.

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