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Fanta

//ˈfæn.tə// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun

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
A surname.

Noun

1
A serving of this drink.

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

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

Etymology 3

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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