fantastico

See also: fantástico and fantasticò

English

Etymology

From Italian fantastico (“fantastic”), from Late Latin phantasticus (“imaginary”). Doublet of fantastic and fantastique.

Adjective

fantastico (comparative more fantastico, superlative most fantastico)

1. (informal, humorous) fantastic

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fanˈta.sti.ko/
• Rhymes: -astiko
• Hyphenation: fan‧tà‧sti‧co

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin phantasticus (“imaginary”), from Ancient Greek φανταστικός (phantastikós).

Adjective

fantastico (feminine fantastica, masculine plural fantastici, feminine plural fantastiche)

1. fantastic (of or pertaining to fantasy)
2. fabulous, imaginary, imaginative, fantastic
3. (hyperbolic) fantastic, wonderful, great, terrific
4. eccentric, outlandish (of people)
5. (heraldry) a monster having body parts of different animals

Derived terms

• fantasticamente
• fantasticare
• fantasticheria

Related terms

• fantasia

Descendants

• → English: fantastico

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fantastico

1. first-person singular present indicative of fantasticare

Further reading

• fantastico in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin phantasticus, borrowed from Ancient Greek φανταστικός (phantastikós), from φαντάζω (phantázō) + -τικός (-tikós).

Adjective

*fantastico m (plural *fantastico, feminine *fantastica, feminine plural fantasticas)

1. (hapax) fantastic
   • 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria, Oviedo: Archivum, page 270:

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     [dizẽ que dou Deus a esta aruore natura de fazer sonar visões fantásticas ao que sobre ella dorme et véér antollanças mentirosas]

     they say that God gave this tree the nature of making dream fantastic visions to the one who sleeps by it and to see false mirages

Descendants

• Galician: fantástico
• Portuguese: fantástico

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fantastico”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fantástic”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG