fantasia=الفنتازيا

fantasia=الفنتازيا

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY

fantasia (n.)

"musical composition that sounds extemporaneous," 1724, from It. fantasia, from L. phantasia (see fantasy).

fantasy (n.)

early 14c., "illusory appearance," from O.Fr. fantaisie (14c.) "vision, imagination," from L. phantasia, from Gk. phantasia "appearance, image, perception, imagination," from phantazesthai "picture to oneself," from phantos "visible," from phainesthai "appear," in late Greek "to imagine, have visions," related to phaos, phos "light," phainein "to show, to bring to light" (see phantasm). Sense of "whimsical notion, illusion" is pre-1400, followed by that of "imagination," which is first attested 1530s. Sense of "day-dream based on desires" is from 1926.

cyanide=السيانيد

cyanide=السيانيد

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY

cyanide (n.)

a salt of hydrocyanic acid, 1826, coined from cyan-, comb. form for carbon and nitrogen compounds, from Greek kyanos "dark blue" (see cyan) + chemical ending -ide, on analogy of chloride. So called because it first had been obtained by heating the dye pigment powder known as Prussian blue (see Prussian).

cyan (n.)

1889, short for cyan blue (1879), from Greek kyanos "dark blue, dark blue enamel, lapis lazuli," probably a non-Indo-European word, but perhaps akin to, or from, Hittite *kuwanna(n)- "copper blue."

-ide

suffix used to form names of simple compounds of an element with another element or radical; originally abstracted from oxide, the first so classified.