Fanta

//ˈfæn.tə// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A serving of this drink.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A brand of fruit-flavoured carbonated drink produced by the Coca-Cola Company.

    "An hour later we were stuffed with smoked fish, grilled maize-on-the-cob, barbecued beef, fried plantains, and Fanta."

  2. 2
    A surname.

Example

More examples

""Drinking Fanta and telling noobs to shut up," Al-Sayib replied, taking a sip of the aforementioned Fanta. "Wait, who is this?""

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

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