Fanta

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæn.tə/, /ˈfɑn.tə/, /ˈfɒn.tə/, /ˈfeɪn.tə/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈfæɳʈaː/

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.”

• Fanta cake

Fanta (plural Fantas)

1. A serving of this drink.

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).

Fanta (plural Fantas)

1. A surname.

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

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Fanta”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 550.

• NAFTA, Nafta

• IPA^(key): [ˈfanta]

Fanta m anim (female equivalent Fantová)

1. a male surname

• “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

Fanta

1. Rōmaji transcription of ファンタ