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Webster 1913 Edition
Fantasia
Fan-ta′si-a
,Noun.
[It. See
Fancy
.] (Mus.)
A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author’s fancy roves unrestricted by set form.
Definition 2024
fantasia
fantasia
See also: fantasía
English
Alternative forms
- phantasia (chiefly dated)
Noun
fantasia (plural fantasias)
- (music) An unstructured orchestral composition.
- Any unstructured work.
- 1899, Israel Zangwill, "They that Walk in Darkness": Ghetto Tragedies (page 289)
- When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough.
- 2003, Kevin L. O'Brien, Strange Stars & Alien Shadows (page 39)
- Her art is always with her, clothing her from throat to toes in an indelible fantasia of color and form and myth.
- 1899, Israel Zangwill, "They that Walk in Darkness": Ghetto Tragedies (page 289)
- A traditional festival with exhibitions of horsemanship among the Maghrebi Berbers.
Translations
an unstructured orchestral composition
any unstructured work
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Finnish
Noun
fantasia
Declension
| Inflection of fantasia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | fantasia | fantasiat | |
| genitive | fantasian | fantasioiden fantasioitten |
|
| partitive | fantasiaa | fantasioita | |
| illative | fantasiaan | fantasioihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | fantasia | fantasiat | |
| accusative | nom. | fantasia | fantasiat |
| gen. | fantasian | ||
| genitive | fantasian | fantasioiden fantasioitten fantasiainrare |
|
| partitive | fantasiaa | fantasioita | |
| inessive | fantasiassa | fantasioissa | |
| elative | fantasiasta | fantasioista | |
| illative | fantasiaan | fantasioihin | |
| adessive | fantasialla | fantasioilla | |
| ablative | fantasialta | fantasioilta | |
| allative | fantasialle | fantasioille | |
| essive | fantasiana | fantasioina | |
| translative | fantasiaksi | fantasioiksi | |
| instructive | — | fantasioin | |
| abessive | fantasiatta | fantasioitta | |
| comitative | — | fantasioineen | |
Italian
Etymology
Latin phantasia from Greek φαντασία
Noun
fantasia f (plural fantasie)
Related terms
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fanˈta.si.a/
Noun
fantasia f (genitive fantasiae); first declension
- Alternative form of phantasia
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fantasia | fantasiae |
| genitive | fantasiae | fantasiārum |
| dative | fantasiae | fantasiīs |
| accusative | fantasiam | fantasiās |
| ablative | fantasiā | fantasiīs |
| vocative | fantasia | fantasiae |
References
- FANTASIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fantasia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- fantasia in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016