fantôme
See also: fantome and fantosme
French
Alternative forms
- phantôme
- fantosme (obsolete)
- phantosme (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French fantosme, from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma); alternatively, according to the TLFi, it may have arrived in French through late Gallic Vulgar Latin in what is now southern France/Occitania, from an Ionian Greek dialect brought to Marseilles, presumably in a form *phantagma > *phantauma. The later spelling in Old French thus reflects the influence of the spelling of phantasma, the standard Latin form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɑ̃.tom/
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Noun
fantôme m (plural fantômes)
- ghost
- Synonym: spectre
- Hyponym: lémure
- Il recherche des individus qui puissent communiquer avec des fantômes.
- He is seeking individuals who can communicate with ghosts.
Derived terms
- conducteur fantôme
- douleur fantôme
- fantomal
- train fantôme
- ville fantôme
Related terms
- fantasme
- fantomatique
Descendants
- → Danish: fantom
- → Dutch: fantoom
- → German: Phantom
- → Estonian: fantoom
- → Romansch: fantom
- → Greek: φαντομάς (fantomás)
- → Ladin: fantom
- → Norwegian:fantom
- → Polish: fantom
- → Portuguese: fantoma
- → Romanian: fantomă
- → Russian: фантом (fantom)
- → Sardinian: pantùma
- → Serbo-Croatian: fantom / фантом
- → Swedish: fantom
Further reading
- “fantôme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- fomenta
Norman
Etymology
From Old French fantosme, from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma).
Noun
fantôme m (plural fantômes)
- (Jersey) ghost
Synonyms
- êpitafl'ye
- r'vénant
- vîsion