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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φᾰντᾰ́ζω (phantázō, “make visible”) + -μᾰ (-ma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰán.taz.ma/ → /ˈɸan.taz.ma/ → /ˈfan.daz.ma/
Noun
φᾰ́ντᾰσμᾰ • (phántasma) n (genitive φᾰντᾰ́σμᾰτος); third declension
- phantom, apparition, ghost
- vision, dream
- (in the plural) phenomena
- fantasy
Inflection
Synonyms
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, 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)
- ghost, phantasm, phantom, spectre (UK), specter (US)
Declension
Synonyms
See also
- φάσμα n (fásma, “spectre”)
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