fancy (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Imagination, as a facultyII. The object of the faculty, an idea, conception1. spĕcies, ēi, f.2. phantăsia (a late word, and written by Cicero with Greek characters, φαντασία)3. ĭmāgĭnātio, ōnis, f. (a rare word)4. somnium (contemptuously5. lĭbīdo, ĭnis, f. (CAPRICE)6. prōlŭbium (a humour or inclination) • fancy (subs.): I. Imagination, as a faculty: q. v. II. The object of the faculty, an idea, conception: 1. spĕcies, ēi, f.: empty f.s, vanae s., Hor. A. P. 7: no idea, or f., can be conceived, nulla s. cogitari potest, Cic. Div. 2, 67, 132. 2. phantăsia (a late word, and written by Cicero with Greek characters, φαντασία): a mere f., not a man, ph., non homo, Petr. 38: Sen. 3. ĭmāgĭnātio, ōnis, f. (a rare word): f.s occurring in sleep, imaginationes in somno, Plin. 10, 7, 26. 4. somnium (contemptuously: a dream): mere f.s, somnia, Ter.: like a sick man's f.s, velut aegri somnia, Hor. A. P. 7: v. dream. 5. lĭbīdo, ĭnis, f. (caprice): according to one's f., ad libidinem, ex libidine, Cic.: Sall.: even the declination of the atoms is invented of his mere f., ipsa declinatio ad libidinem fingitur, Cic.: not to obey even kings save according to their f., ne regibus quidem parere nisi ex l., Tac. 6. prōlŭbium (a humour or inclination): they take a f. to hear, p. audiendi subit (eos), Gell. 16, 19. (Simly, Liv. has dulcedo invasio, foll. by gerund: 5, 13.) Phr.: if I have a f. to do so, si libet, Hor.: v. humour, caprice.