Fantasieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Old French fantasie, from Latin phantasia (“an idea, notion, fancy, phantasm”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía). More at fantasy.

発音

• IPA: /fantaˈziː(ə)/, /ˈfantaziː(ə)/, /ˈfantəziː/, /ˈfan(t)siː/

名詞

fantasie

1. the faculty of imagination
2. something imagined; mental image, conception, notion
   • c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1440–1450 in Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 16, folio 130r:

     For sorweful ymagynacioun / Is alway hooly in my mynde […] / Such fantasies ben in myn hede / So I not what is best too doo

     For sorrowful imagination / Is always wholly in my mind […] / Such fantasies are in my head / That I don’t know what is best to do.

3. particularly, a deluded or false mental notion, fantasy
4. phantom, apparition, illusion
5. (Late Middle English) product of imagination, creative or artistic work
6. inclination, desire, liking, especially as born of whim rather than reason
7. love or amorous attachment, fancy

関連する語

• fantasien

派生した語

• English: fantasy, fancy (see there for further descendants)

参照

• “fantasīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.