phantasma

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æzmə

Noun

phantasma (plural phantasmata)

1. 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

1. image, appearance
2. 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)

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