Ancient Greek

Noun

φαντασία • ‎(phantasía) f ‎(genitive φαντασίας); first declension

1. look, appearance, presentation, display
2. showy appearance, pomp, pageantry
3. perception, impression
4. image

Inflection

Descendants

• English: fantasy, fancy
• French: fantaisie
• Russian: фанта́зия f ‎(fantázija)

References

• φαντασία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φαντασία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «φαντασία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G5325”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fancy idem, page 306.
  • imagination idem, page 416.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Noun

φαντασία • ‎(fantasía) f ‎(plural φαντασίες)

1. imagination, fantasy

Declension