different between phantasma vs phantom

English

Noun

phantasma (plural phantasmata)

1. Alternative form of phantasm
   • 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique

     ...till the 7. of Iune ?he againe deluded us, after two houres cha?e as a phanta?ma vani?hing towards Goa.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (phántasma)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /p?an?tas.ma/, [p?än??t?äs?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fan?tas.ma/, [f?n??t??zm?]

Noun

phantasma n (genitive phantasmatis); third declension

1. image, appearance
2. apparition, spectre, phantom

Declension

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

Descendants

Portuguese

Noun

phantasma m or f (in variation) (plural phantasmas)

1. Obsolete spelling of fantasma (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

English

Alternative forms

• fantom (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English fantom, fantum, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (phántasma, “phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from ??????? (phantáz?, “I make visible”). Doublet of phantasm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fænt?m/

Noun

phantom (plural phantoms)

1. A ghost or apparition.
2. Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion.
3. (bridge) A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing.
4. (medical imaging) A test object. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• ghost
• See also Thesaurus:ghost

Derived terms

• phantom limb
• phantom pain

Related terms

• fantasy

Translations

Adjective

phantom (not comparable)

1. Illusive.
2. Fictitious or nonexistent.

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “phantom”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Hampton