Morpheme
Fant
Type
bound base
Denotation
bring to light, cause to appear, show, make visible
Etymology
Gallicization of Ancient Greek phantázein, from phainein
Evidence
cyberfantasy, docufantasy, fantasia, fantasias, fantasied, fantasies, fantasist, fantasize, fantasized, fantasizes, fantasizing, fantast, fantastic, fantastical, fantastically, fantasticism, fantasticity, fantasticize, fantasticly, fantasticness, fantastics, fantastique, fantasy, fantasying, fantasylike, fantasywear, nonfantastic, nonfantasy, paleofantasy, superfantastic, technofantasy, telefantasy, ultrafantastic, unfantastic
Notes
fantasia, phantasia, phantasy, and fancy are doublets
Modern Base Analysis
<Fantase> denoting “fantasy”
alternative modern base analysis without suffixal construction -asize, -asist
from fantasy (<Fant + -asy>)
fantasize, fantasist
See Also
Fantom, Fancy, Ph, Phant, Phan(e) [Phane, Phan], Phene, Phaner, -asize, -asist
