verb transitiveWord forms: fanˈtastiˌcated or fanˈtastiˌcating
to make fantastic
Derived forms
fantastication (fanˌtastiˈcation)
noun
fantasticate in American English
(fænˈtæstɪˌkeit)
transitive verbWord forms: -cated, -cating
to make or render fantastic
Word origin
[1590–1600; fantastic + -ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1590–1600. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: dummy, investment, radius, squeeze, tea-ate is a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, its English distribution parallelingthat of Latin. The form originated as a suffix added to a- stem verbs to form adjectives (separate). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate; advocate; agitate). In English the use as a verbal suffix has been extended to stems of non-Latin origin(calibrate; acierate)