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Asturian
Alternative forms
Noun
pantasma f (plural pantasmes)
- ghost, phantom
Cebuano
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish fantasma, borrowed from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “image, phantom”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “I make visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “I cause to appear, bring to light”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pan‧tas‧ma
- IPA(key): /panˈtasma/,
Noun
pantasma
- ghost; phantasm
- (Cebu, folklore) light or flame that has the ability to copy the size, shape or height of the thing it is standing next to
Galician
Etymology
From Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “image, phantom”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pantasma f (plural pantasmas)
- ghost, phantom
- 1885, V.P., Un conto:
pampeou como si vira a pantasma que corre por riba dos eidos e brinca os valados sin pór pé nin siquera nunha herba.- He got bewildered as if he was seeing the phantom that runs over the fields and leaps the fences without even trampling a single herb
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