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"fantasy (something imagined)" in seven languages

Meaningfantasy (something imagined)

Spanish

fantasía

/fantaˈsia/

fem.learned

French

fantasme

/fɑ̃tasm/

masc.other source · Greek phántasma 'apparition', via Latin

Fantaisie is the same word as fantasía but means whimsy; the literary genre is la fantasy.

Italian

fantasia

/fantaˈzia/

fem.learned

Also plain 'imagination': avere fantasia.

Portuguese

fantasia

/fɐ̃taˈziɐ/

fem.learned

Also a costume: fantasia de carnaval.

Romanian

fantezie

/fanˈtezie/

fem.borrowed · Italian fantasia and French fantaisie

Catalan

fantasia

/fəntəˈziə/

fem.learned

English

fantasy

/ˈfæntəsi/

from Latin/French · Old French fantasie, from Latin PHANTASIA

English → Italianfantasy (something imagined)fantasiaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

PHANTASIAM (Greek phantasía)‘appearance, imagination’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

Greek phantasía 'appearance, imagination' came in through Latin; English fancy is a worn-down fantasy. French splits the family: fantaisie for whimsy, fantasme for a dream you indulge in.

English relatives: fantastic, fancy, phantom

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In a sentence

  • esNo es más que una fantasía.
  • frCe n'est qu'un fantasme.
  • itÈ solo una fantasia.
  • ptÉ só uma fantasia.
  • roE doar o fantezie.
  • caNomés és una fantasia.
  • enIt's just a fantasy.

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