phantasie

phantasie (plural phantasies)

1. Archaic spelling of fantasy.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, London, Act 1, Scene 1:

     Is not this ſomthing more then phantaſie?

• antiphase, aphanites

• Homophones: phantasient, phantasies

phantasie

1. first-person singular present indicative of phantasier
2. third-person singular present indicative of phantasier
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of phantasier
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of phantasier
5. second-person singular imperative of phantasier

From Old French fantasie, with the ph- reinstated to reflect Latin phantasia and its Ancient Greek source φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”).

phantasie f (plural phantasies)

1. fantasy (that which comes from one's imagination)

• French: fantaisie