different between gorgeous vs fantasia

English

Etymology

From Middle English gorgeouse, a borrowing from Middle French gorgias (“elegant, fashionable”), from Old French gourgias, gorgias (“gorgeous, gaudy, flaunting, gallant, fine”), of uncertain origin, but apparently connected with Old French gorgias (“a gorget, ruffle for the neck”), from Old French gorge (“bosom, throat”). See gorge. Semantic evolution probably akin to "swelling of the throat or bosom due to pride, bridling up" to "assume an air of importance, flaunting".

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????d??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????d??s/
• Rhymes: -??(r)d??s

Adjective

gorgeous (comparative more gorgeous, superlative most gorgeous)

1. (of a person or place) Very beautiful.

   All the contest judges agreed that Brigitt was absolutely gorgeous.

   The sunsets in Hawaii are gorgeous.

2. (rare) Very enjoyable, pleasant, tasty, etc.

   Hummus is absolutely gorgeous.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:beautiful

Derived terms

• gorgeously
• gorgeousness

Translations

See also

• gorge

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fantasia (“imagination, fancy, fantasy; musical composition with improvisational characteristics”), from Latin phantasia (“fancy, fantasy; imagination”), borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (phantasí?, “appearance, look; display, presentation; pageantry, pomp; impression, perception; image”), from ????????? (phántasis) + -??? (-í?, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). ????????? (Phántasis) is derived from ???????? (phantáz?, “to make visible, show; to become visible, appear; to imagine”), from ????? (phaín?, “to appear; to reveal; to shine”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?- (“to shine”). The English word is a doublet of fancy, fantasy, phantasia, and phantasy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fæn?te?.z?.?/, /-?t??-/, /fæn?te?.??/, /?fæn.t??zi?.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fæn?te?.zi.?/, /fæn?te?.??/
• Hyphenation: fan?ta?sia

Noun

fantasia (plural fantasias)

1. (music, also figuratively) A form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics; specifically, one combining a number of well-known musical pieces. [from early 18th c.]
2. (chiefly art, by extension) Any work which is unstructured or comprises other works of different genres or styles.
3. A traditional festival of the inhabitants of the Maghreb (in northwest Africa) featuring exhibitions of horsemanship.

Alternative forms

• phantasia (dated)

Translations

References

Further reading

• fantasia (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fantasia (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (phantasía).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /f?n.t??zi.?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fan.ta?zi.a/

Noun

fantasia f (plural fantasies)

1. fantasy

Related terms

• fantasiar
• fantàstic

Further reading

• “fantasia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fantasia” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “fantasia” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fantasia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fantasia, phantasia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?nt?si?/, [?f?n?t???s?i?]
• Rhymes: -i?
• Syllabification: fan?ta?si?a

Noun

fantasia

1. fantasy

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (phantasía).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fan.ta?zi.a/

Noun

fantasia f (plural fantasie)

1. imagination, fantasy, whim, fancy
2. pattern
3. (music) fantasia

Related terms

• fantascienza
• fantasioso
• fantasista
• fantastico

Descendants

• ? English: fantasia
• ? German: Fantasia

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fan?ta.si.a/, [fän??t?äs?iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fan?ta.si.a/, [f?n??t???s?i?]

Noun

fantasia f (genitive fantasiae); first declension

1. Alternative form of phantasia

Declension

First-declension noun.

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?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (phantasía).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /f??t??zi?/

Noun

fantasia f (plural fantasias)

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

Related terms

• fantástico

Further reading

• “fantasia” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fan?tasja/, [fãn??t?a.sja]

Verb

fantasia

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of fantasiar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of fantasiar.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of fantasiar.

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English fantasyThis etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

Noun

fantasia (n class, plural fantasia)

1. fantasy (literary genre)