fantasma
Asturian edit
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fantasma f (plural fantasmes)
- Alternative form of pantasma
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma).
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fantasma m (plural fantasmes)
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fantasma
- third-person singular past historic of fantasmer
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin phantasma, or Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma).[1]
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fantasma m (plural fantasmi)
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References edit
- ^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “fantasma”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
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Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin phantasma (“apparition, specter”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to make visible”). Doublet of abantesma.
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Noun edit
fantasma m or f by sense or m (plural fantasmas)
- ghost (spirit appearing after death)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fantasma
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The gender of fantasma varies from person to person:
- some use it as a masculine when referring to the ghost of a man and feminine when referring to the ghost of a woman;
- some use it as a masculine always, irrespective of the ghost’s sex;
- in the past, it was also used as a feminine noun always.
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Romanian edit
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fantasma f
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “image, phantom”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to make visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to cause to appear, bring to light”). Compare Sicilian fantàsimu (“dumb”). Cognate with English phantom.
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Noun edit
fantasma m (plural fantasmas)
- ghost, phantom, wraith
- El fantasma de la ópera. ― The Phantom of the Opera.
- (colloquial) show-off
- Synonyms: exhibicionista, presumido
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Descendants edit
- → Cebuano: pantasma
Further reading edit
- “fantasma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014