Where does “fantasterrific” come from?
fantasterrific (English) comes from English terrific, from French terrifique, from Latin terrificus, from Latin terror, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.
fantasterrific (English): fantastic; terrific; amazingly good
Definitions
- fantastic; terrific; amazingly good
Ancestry of “fantasterrific”, step by step
fantasterrific traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English terrific
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | terrific | Terrifying, causing terror; terrible; sublime,... |
| 2 | French | terrifique | terrifying, frightening |
| 3 | Latin | terrificus | terrifying |
| 4 | Latin | terror | a dread, terror, great fear, alarm, panic; an... |
| 5 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 6 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 7 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 8 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via English fantastic
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | fantastic | Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or... |
| 2 | French | fantastique | fantastic |
| 3 | Spanish | fantástico | fantastic |
| 4 | Italian | fantastico | fantastic; fabulous, imaginary, imaginative,... |
| 5 | Latin | phantasticus | imaginary |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | φανταστικός | able to produce the appearance of something |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -τικός | relating to, suited to, skilled in, able to,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -σις | Added to verb stems to form abstract nouns or... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | -τις | retained after dentals |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tis | Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots |