fantasia

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• Received-Pronunciation: /fænˈteɪ.zɪ.ə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /fænˈteɪ.ʒə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌfæn.təˈziː.ə/
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• General-American: /fænˈteɪ.zi.ə/
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• General-American: /fænˈteɪ.ʒə/
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• rhymes with -eɪzɪə
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Borrowed from Italian Fantasia.

Borrowed from Italian fantasia (“imagination, fancy, fantasy; musical composition with improvisational characteristics”), from Latin phantasia (“fancy, fantasy; imagination”), borrowed from 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, fantasy, phantasia, and phantasy.

36 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: ֆանտազիա (fantazia) — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Chinese Mandarin: 暢想曲 /畅想曲 (chàngxiǎngqǔ) — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Chinese Mandarin: 幻想曲 (huànxiǎngqǔ) — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Danish: fantasi — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Esperanto: fantazio — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Estonian: fantaasia — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Finnish: fantasia — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• French: fantaisie — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Georgian: ფანტაზია (panṭazia) — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• German: Fantasia — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• German: Fantaisie — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• German: Fantasie — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Greek: φαντασία (fantasía) — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Hungarian: fantázia — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Italian: fantasia — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Norwegian: fantasi — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Polish: fantazja — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Russian: фанта́зия (fantázija) — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Serbo-Croatian: fantazija — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Slovak: fantázia — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Ukrainian: фантазія (fantazija) — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Uzbek: fantaziya — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Vietnamese: phăng-tê-di — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Vietnamese: phăng-te-di — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Vietnamese: phăng — form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics
• Polish: fantazja — work which is unstructured or comprises other works of different genres or styles
• Serbo-Croatian: fantazija — work which is unstructured or comprises other works of different genres or styles
• Vietnamese: phăng-tê-di — work which is unstructured or comprises other works of different genres or styles
• Vietnamese: phăng-te-di — work which is unstructured or comprises other works of different genres or styles
• Vietnamese: phăng — work which is unstructured or comprises other works of different genres or styles
• Arabic: فَانْتَازِيَا (fāntāziyā) — traditional festival of the inhabitants of the Maghreb
• Arabic: خِيَالَة (ḵiyāla) — traditional festival of the inhabitants of the Maghreb
• Arabic: تبوريدة (tbūrīda) — traditional festival of the inhabitants of the Maghreb
• Arabic: خيالة (ḵyāla) — traditional festival of the inhabitants of the Maghreb
• Polish: fantazja — traditional festival of the inhabitants of the Maghreb
• Serbo-Croatian: fantazija — traditional festival of the inhabitants of the Maghreb