fantastic的词源

英文词源

fantastic (adj.): late 14c., "existing only in imagination," from Middle French fantastique (14c.), from Medieval Latin fantasticus, from Late Latin phantasticus "imaginary," from Greek phantastikos "able to imagine," from phantazein "make visible" (middle voice phantazesthai "picture to oneself"); see phantasm. Trivial sense of "wonderful, marvelous" recorded by 1938. Old French had a different adjective form, fantasieus "weird; insane; make-believe." Medieval Latin also used fantasticus as a noun, "a lunatic," and Shakespeare and his contemporaries had it in Italian form fantastico "one who acts ridiculously."

来自fantasy, 幻想。即幻想中的，极美妙的。

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来源于希腊语phantastikos(能使可见的),经中古拉丁语进入古法语为fantastique。

同源词：fancy, fantasy