fanta/ˈfæn.tə/EtymologyMarketing coinage, derived from German Fantasie (“imagination”), which employees were exhorted to use in inventing a name for the new drink.nameA 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.”A surname.nounA serving of this drink.