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 Latin) IPA^(key): [pʰanˈtas.ma]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fan̪ˈt̪az.ma]

Noun

phantasma n (genitive phantasmatis); third declension

image, appearance
apparition, spectre, phantom

Declension

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

	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

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

Portuguese

Noun

phantasma m or f (plural phantasmas)

Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of fantasma.