Fantaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Marketing coinage, derived from German Fantasie (“imagination”), which employees were exhorted to use in inventing a name for the new drink.

発音

• IPA: /ˈfæn.tə/, /ˈfɑn.tə/, /ˈfɒn.tə/, /ˈfeɪn.tə/
• (South Asia) IPA: /ˈfæɳʈaː/

固有名詞

Fanta

1. 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.

   • 2015, Cari Hunter, No Good Reason, Valley Falls, N.Y.: Bold Strokes Books, →ISBN, page 232:

     Meg eyed the five cubicles, each with its curtain drawn. “Which one is he in?” ¶ “Three. Once I’d treated him to a Mars and a bottle of Fanta, he seemed happy enough to wait.”

派生語

• Fanta cake

名詞

Fanta (plural Fantas)

1. A serving of this drink.

語源 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).

固有名詞

Fanta (plural Fantas)

1. A surname.

統計情報

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Fanta is the 37544 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.

アナグラム

• NAFTA, Nafta