fantom
Middle English
/fanˈtɔːm/
noun
Definitions
- Something that is ephemeral or transient; worldly wealth (as opposed to spiritual gains).
- An experience or happening that is non-real or phantasmic; something which is misleading or a phantom.
- A lie or misconception; something which is untrue or divorced from reality.
- (rare) Deceitfulness or fraudulence; the practice or art of conniving to trick.
- (rare) A hallucination or state of deliriousness brought on by illness.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French fantosme derived from Latin phantasma (specter, apparition, an apparition, LL) derived from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (ghost, image, phantom, apparition, an appearance, specter, phantasm).
Origin
Ancient Greek
φάντασμα
Gloss
ghost, image, phantom, apparition, an appearance, specter, phantasm
Concept
Semantic Field
Religion and belief
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- phantasmagorial English
- phantasmagorian English
- phantasmagoric English
- phantasma Latin
- fantasma Italian
- fantasmagorie French
- fantasme French
- fantôme French
- phantasmagorie French
- fantasma Spanish, Castilian
- φάντασμα Ancient Greek
- φᾰντᾰ́ζω Ancient Greek
- *bʰeh- Proto-Indo-European
- fantasma Portuguese
- fantom, fantum Middle English
- fantasme Old French
- fantosme Old French
- fantasma Catalan, Valencian
- pantasma Galician
- φάντασμα Greek (modern)
- fantôme Norman
- fantâxima Ligurian