fantasia

See also: Fantasia and fantasía

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fantasia (plural fantasias)

  1. (music) An unstructured orchestral composition.
  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.
  3. A traditional festival with exhibitions of horsemanship among the Maghrebi Berbers.

Translations

Catalan

Noun

fantasia f (plural fantasies)

  1. fantasy

Finnish

Noun

fantasia

  1. fantasy

Declension

Inflection of fantasia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative fantasia fantasiat
genitive fantasian fantasioiden
fantasioitten
partitive fantasiaa fantasioita
illative fantasiaan fantasioihin
singular plural
nominative fantasia fantasiat
accusative nom. fantasia fantasiat
gen. fantasian
genitive fantasian fantasioiden
fantasioitten
fantasiainrare
partitive fantasiaa fantasioita
inessive fantasiassa fantasioissa
elative fantasiasta fantasioista
illative fantasiaan fantasioihin
adessive fantasialla fantasioilla
ablative fantasialta fantasioilta
allative fantasialle fantasioille
essive fantasiana fantasioina
translative fantasiaksi fantasioiksi
instructive — fantasioin
abessive fantasiatta fantasioitta
comitative — fantasioineen

Italian

Etymology

Latin phantasia from Greek φαντασία

Noun

fantasia f (plural fantasie)

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

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

fantasia f (genitive fantasiae); first declension

  1. Alternative form of phantasia

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative fantasia fantasiae
genitive fantasiae fantasiārum
dative fantasiae fantasiīs
accusative fantasiam fantasiās
ablative fantasiā fantasiīs
vocative fantasia fantasiae

References

  • 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

Portuguese

Noun

fantasia f (plural fantasias)

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

Swahili

Noun

fantasia (n class, plural fantasia)

  1. fantasy (literary genre)
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