fantasia

• phantasia (chiefly dated)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fænˈteɪzɪə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /fænˈteɪʒə/

fantasia (plural fantasias)

1. (music) Form of instrumental composition with free structure and improvisational characteristics.
2. Any unstructured work.
   • 1899, Israel Zangwill, "They that Walk in Darkness": Ghetto Tragedies (page 289)

     When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough.

   • 2003, Kevin L. O'Brien, Strange Stars & Alien Shadows (page 39)

     Her art is always with her, clothing her from throat to toes in an indelible fantasia of color and form and myth.

   • 12 December 2018, Charles Bramesco, AV Club A spoonful of nostalgia helps the calculated Mary Poppins Returns go down

     the zippy musical numbers in which Mary Poppins (a stiff-lipped Emily Blunt) whisks cherubs Annabel, John, and Georgie (Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, and Joel Dawson, respectively) away into colorful hyperreal fantasias impress.

3. A traditional festival with exhibitions of horsemanship among the Maghrebi Berbers.

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

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /fən.təˈzi.ə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fan.taˈzi.a/

fantasia f (plural fantasies)

1. fantasy

• fantasiar
• fantàstic

• “fantasia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fantasia” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “fantasia” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fantasia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

fantasia

1. fantasy

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

fantasia f (plural fantasie)

1. imagination, fantasy, whim, fancy
2. pattern

• fantascienza
• fantasioso
• fantasista
• fantastico

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fanˈta.si.a/

fantasia f (genitive fantasiae); first declension

1. Alternative form of phantasia

First declension.

• fantasia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fantasia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• fantasia in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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

fantasia f (plural fantasias)

1. fantasy (imagining)
2. (literature) fantasy (literary genre)
3. costume (outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress)

• fantástico

• “fantasia” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

fantasia (n class, plural fantasia)

1. fantasy (literary genre)