phantasma

English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -æzmə

Noun

phantasma (plural phantasmata)

Alternative form of phantasm
- 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:
  ...till the 7. of Iune ſhe againe deluded us, after two houres chaſe as a phantaſma vaniſhing towards Goa.

Derived terms

phantasmal

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /pʰanˈtas.ma/, [pʰän̪ˈt̪äs̠mä]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fanˈtas.ma/, [fän̪ˈt̪äzmä]

Noun

phantasma n (genitive phantasmatis); third declension

image, appearance
apparition, spectre, phantom

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	phantasma	phantasmata
Genitive	phantasmatis	phantasmatum
Dative	phantasmatī	phantasmatibus
Accusative	phantasma	phantasmata
Ablative	phantasmate	phantasmatibus
Vocative	phantasma	phantasmata

Descendants

Old Catalan: fantauma
Old French: fantosme
- French: fantôme (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: fantôme
- → Middle Dutch: fantome
  - Dutch: fantoom
- → Middle English: fantome, fantam, fantem, fanteme, fantesme, fantime, fantom, fantosme, fantoum, fantum, fantym
  - English: phantom, phantasm
  - Scots: phanton
Old Occitan: fantauma
- Occitan: fantauma
⇒ Portuguese: abantesma

Borrowings

→ Asturian: pantasma, fantasma
→ Catalan: fantasma
→ English: phantasm
→ French: phantasme
→ Galician: pantasma
→ Italian: fantasma
→ Piedmontese: fantasma
→ Portuguese: fantasma
→ Romanian: fantasmă
→ Sardinian: pantàsima
→ Serbo-Croatian: fantazma
→ Spanish: fantasma
- → Cebuano: pantasma

Portuguese

Noun

phantasma m or f (plural phantasmas)

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of fantasma.

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