φάντασμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φᾰντᾰ́ζω (phantázō, “make visible”) +‎ -μᾰ (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰán.taz.ma/ → /ˈɸan.taz.ma/ → /ˈfan.daz.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰán.taz.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰan.taz.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸan.taz.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfan.taz.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfan.daz.ma/

Noun

φᾰ́ντᾰσμᾰ • (phántasma) n (genitive φᾰντᾰ́σμᾰτος); third declension

1. phantom, apparition, ghost
2. vision, dream
3. (in the plural) phenomena
4. fantasy

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ φᾰ́ντᾰσμᾰ; τοῦ φᾰντᾰ́σμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ φᾰ́ντᾰσμᾰ tò phántasma	τὼ φᾰντᾰ́σμᾰτε tṑ phantásmate	τᾰ̀ φᾰντᾰ́σμᾰτᾰ tà phantásmata
Genitive	τοῦ φᾰντᾰ́σμᾰτος toû phantásmatos	τοῖν φᾰντᾰσμᾰ́τοιν toîn phantasmátoin	τῶν φᾰντᾰσμᾰ́των tôn phantasmátōn
Dative	τῷ φᾰντᾰ́σμᾰτῐ tôi phantásmati	τοῖν φᾰντᾰσμᾰ́τοιν toîn phantasmátoin	τοῖς φᾰντᾰ́σμᾰσῐ / φᾰντᾰ́σμᾰσῐν toîs phantásmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ φᾰ́ντᾰσμᾰ tò phántasma	τὼ φᾰντᾰ́σμᾰτε tṑ phantásmate	τᾰ̀ φᾰντᾰ́σμᾰτᾰ tà phantásmata
Vocative	φᾰ́ντᾰσμᾰ phántasma	φᾰντᾰ́σμᾰτε phantásmate	φᾰντᾰ́σμᾰτᾰ phantásmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• (fantasy): φᾰντᾰσῐ́ᾱ (phantasíā)

Descendants

• Greek: φάντασμα (fántasma)
• → Latin: phantasma (see there for further descendants)

References

• “φάντασμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φάντασμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φάντασμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G5326 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • apparition idem, page 34.
  • appearance idem, page 35.
  • form idem, page 338.
  • ghost idem, page 358.
  • illusion idem, page 416.
  • phantom idem, page 610.
  • shade idem, page 760.
  • shape idem, page 762.
  • spectre idem, page 800.
  • spirit idem, page 802.
  • vision idem, page 954.

Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfan.da.zma/
• Hyphenation: φά‧ντα‧σμα

Noun

φάντασμα • (fántasma) n (plural φαντάσματα)

1. ghost, phantasm, phantom, spectre (UK), specter (US)

Declension

Declension of φάντασμα

	singular	plural
nominative	φάντασμα •	φαντάσματα •
genitive	φαντάσματος •	φαντασμάτων •
accusative	φάντασμα •	φαντάσματα •
vocative	φάντασμα •	φαντάσματα •

Synonyms

• στοιχειό n (stoicheió)
• πνεύμα n (pnévma)

Related terms

• φαντασία f (fantasía, “imagination”)
• and see at φαντάζω (fantázo)

See also

• φάσμα n (fásma, “spectre”)

Further reading

• φάντασμα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el