fantastique
English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French fantastique. Doublet of fantastic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fæntæsˈtɪk/
Noun
fantastique (uncountable)
- (film, literature) A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story.
- 1988 January 29, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Invitation to the Trance”, in Chicago Reader:
- And certainly the film's free-floating fantasy and the blatant transparency of its narrative--its capacity to be seen for the artifice that it is--are a lot closer to fantastique than they are to the more logically circumscribed forms of fancy celebrated in this country.
See also
fantastique on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin phantasticus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰστῐκός (phantastikós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɑ̃.tas.tik/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ik
Adjective
fantastique (plural fantastiques)
- fantastic (related to fantasy or fantasies)
- (film, literature) related to the fantastique genre.
Derived terms
Descendants
- →⇒ Dutch: fantastisch
- Petjo: fantasties
- → Indonesian: fantastis
- →⇒ German: fantastisch
- → Romanian: fantastic
Noun
fantastique m (plural fantastiques)
- (film, literature) A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story.
Descendants
- → English: fantastique
Further reading
- “fantastique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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