Meanings
verbfantasticate (third-person singular simple present fantasticates, present participle fantasticating, simple past and past participle fantasticated)
present singular third person fantasticates · participle present fantasticating · participle past fantasticated · past fantasticated
- transitiveTo make fantastical.
- intransitiveTo behave fantastically.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰh₂nyéti
- Proto-Hellenic*pʰáňňō
- Ancient Greekφαίνω (phaínō)
- Ancient Greekφαντάζω (phantázō)
- Ancient Greekφανταστικός (phantastikós)
- Late Latinphantasticus
- Middle Frenchfantastique
- Englishfantastic
- Englishfantasticate
From fantastic + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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