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Fanta
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English
Etymology 1
Marketing coinage, derived from German Fantasie (“imagination”), which employees were exhorted to use in inventing a name for the new drink.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Fanta
- A brand of fruit-flavoured carbonated drink produced by the Coca-Cola Company.
- 1996, Neil Peart, “People on the Bus”, in The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa, Lawrencetown Beach, N.S.: Pottersfield Press, published 1999, →ISBN, part 2 (Epiphanies and Apostasies), page 179:
- An hour later we were stuffed with smoked fish, grilled maize-on-the-cob, barbecued beef, fried plantains, and Fanta.
Derived terms
Translations
the brand of drink
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Noun
Fanta (plural Fantas)
- A serving of this drink.
Etymology 2
Two main origins:
- Borrowed from Czech Fanta, from the phrase fantit se (“to go crazy”), from fant (“crazy, eccentric person”), probably borrowed from German Fant (“dandy, inexperienced person”).
- Borrowed from Amharic ፋንታ (fanta).
Proper noun
Fanta (plural Fantas)
- A surname.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Fanta is the 37544th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 593 individuals. Fanta is most common among White (66.78%) and Black/African American (29.01%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Fanta”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 550.
Anagrams
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Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Fanta m anim (female equivalent Fantová)
- a male surname
Declension
Declension of Fanta (masculine animate in -a)
Further reading
- “Fanta”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)
- Beneš, Josef (2020), Německá příjmení u Čechů [German Surnames of Czechs] (in Czech), Prague: Agentura Pankrác, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 116
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Romanization
Fanta
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