Morpheme
Fancy
Type
free base
Denotation
imagination, image, representation, whim, love, attachment, inclination, liking, not plain, elegant, ornamental
Etymology
Middle English fantsy, contraction of fantasy, fantasye, fantasie; Old French fantasie; Medieval Latin fantasia; Late Latin phantasia; Ancient Greek phantasía, from phantázein, from phainein
Evidence
disfancy, fanciable, fancible, fancied, fancier, fancies, fanciest, fanciful, fanciless, fanciness, fancy, fancying, fancymonger, fancypants, fancywork, hyperfancy, nonfancy, overfancy, superfancy, unfancy
Notes
fancy, fantasia, phantasia, phantasy are doublets
