# fantasie
## English
### Noun

fantasie (plural fantasies)
* Obsolete spelling of fantasy.
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:, scene i:
    Horatio ſaies tis but our fantaſie,

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch fantasie, from Middle Dutch fantasie, from Old French fantasie, from Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fan.taˈsi/, /fan.təˈsi/

### Noun

fantasie (plural fantasieë)
* fantasy (something that has been imagined)

## Czech
### Etymology

Derived from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to show at the eye or the mind”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to show in light”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfantazɪjɛ]

### Noun

fantasie f (relational adjective fantastický)
* Dated spelling of fantazie.

#### Related terms

* fantasta m

### References

* ↑ Jiří Rejzek (2007) “fantazie”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), Leda

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* fantaisie (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle Dutch fantasie, from Old French fantasie, from Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɑntaːˈzi/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: fan‧ta‧sie
* Rhymes: -i

### Noun

fantasie f (plural fantasieën, diminutive fantasietje n)
* fantasy, imagination (capacity for imagining and thinking up things)
* fantasy (something that has been imagined)
* fantasy, imagination (fantastic image or state, state of fantasy)

#### Derived terms

* fantasierijk
* fantasieloos
* fantasievol
* fantastisch

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: fantasie
* Negerhollands: fantasi
* → Indonesian: fantasi

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɑ̃.ta.zi/

### Noun

fantasie f (plural fantasies)
* Alternative form of fantasy

### Verb

fantasie
* inflection of fantasier:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “fantasy” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
* “fantasy” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fan.taˈzi.e/
* Rhymes: -ie
* Hyphenation: fan‧ta‧sì‧e

### Noun

fantasie f
* plural of fantasia

### Anagrams

* Stefania

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* fantasye, fantasy, fantasse, fantesy, fantsy, fansey

### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French fantasie, from Latin phantasia (“an idea, notion, fancy, phantasm”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía). More at fantasy.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fantaˈziː(ə)/, /ˈfantaziː(ə)/, /ˈfantəziː/, /ˈfan(t)siː/

### Noun

fantasie
* the faculty of imagination
* something imagined; mental image, conception, notion
** c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1440–1450 in Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 16, folio 130r:
    For sorweful ymagynacioun / Is alway hooly in my mynde […] / Such fantasies ben in myn hede / So I not what is best too dooFor sorrowful imagination / Is always wholly in my mind […] / Such fantasies are in my head / That I don’t know what is best to do.
* particularly, a deluded or false mental notion, fantasy
* phantom, apparition, illusion
* (Late Middle English) product of imagination, creative or artistic work
* inclination, desire, liking, especially as born of whim rather than reason
* love or amorous attachment, fancy

#### Related terms

* fantasien

#### Descendants

* English: fantasy, fancy (see there for further descendants)

#### References

* “fantasīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Middle High German
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰσῐ́ᾱ (phăntăsĭ́ā).

### Noun

fantasīe f
* fantasy

#### Descendants

* Alemannic German: Fantasii
* German: Fantasie, Phantasie
* German: Phantasei

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* fantaisie

### Etymology

From Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fanˈtazjə/

### Noun

fantasie oblique singular, f (oblique plural fantasies, nominative singular fantasie, nominative plural fantasies)
* fantasy (imagination; concept; idea)

#### Descendants

* → Middle English: fantasie, fantasye, fantasy, fantasse, fantesy, fantsy, fansey
** English: fantasy, fancy (see there for further descendants)
* French: fantaisie (see there for further descendants)
* → Middle Dutch: fantasie
** Dutch: fantasie, fantaisie (obsolete)
*** Afrikaans: fantasie
*** Negerhollands: fantasi
*** → Indonesian: fantasi

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /fɐ̃.taˈzi.i/
* (Brazil) IPA: /fɐ̃.taˈzi.i/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /fɐ̃.taˈzi.e/
* (Portugal) IPA: /fɐ̃.tɐˈzi.ɨ/

### Verb

fantasie
* inflection of fantasiar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Noun

fantasie f (plural fantasii)
* Alternative form of fantezie

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Verb

fantasie
* inflection of fantasiar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative