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fantezie

fantasy /fante'zi.e/

noun#2822 most common

Also: imagination, whim, flight of fancy

Example sentences

Copilul are multă fantezie.
The child has a lot of imagination.
Îmi place să citesc cărți de fantezie.
I like to read fantasy books.
Rochia ei are un model plin de fantezie.
Her dress has a pattern full of whimsy.
A avut o fantezie nebunească despre călătorii în spațiu.
He had a wild fantasy about space travel.
Scriitorul și-a lăsat fantezia să zboare în acest roman.
The writer let his imagination fly in this novel.
Fanteziile sale artistice au influențat generații întregi de pictori.
His artistic flights of imagination influenced whole generations of painters.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativefanteziefantezii
Genitivefanteziifanteziilor
Accusativefanteziefantezii
Vocativefanteziefantezii

Word family

fantezistwhimsical, fanciful
fantasticfantastic, amazing
a-și imaginato imagine (related in meaning, not in root)
fantomăghost, phantom

Etymology

Romanian borrowed "fantezie" from French "fantaisie" in the 19th century, during the wave of French loanwords that reshaped modern Romanian vocabulary. The French word itself descends from Greek "phantasia" (φαντασία), meaning appearance or the power of imagination, from the verb "phantazein," to make visible or present to the mind. That verb is built on "phainein," to show or bring to light.

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