fantôme

See also: fantome and fantosme

French

Alternative forms

• phantôme
• fantosme (obsolete)
• phantosme (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited 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 Marseille, 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)

1. ghost

   Synonym: spectre

   Hyponyms: con tinh, lémure, ma gia

   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)

1. (Jersey) ghost

Synonyms

• êpitafl'ye
• r'vénant
• vîsion