English word phantom comes from Ancient Greek φαντάζω (phantázō - show, make visible), and later Latin phantasma (apparition, spectre, phantom., image, appearance)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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φαντάζω | Ancient Greek (grc) | phantázō: show; to make visible; (passive) become visible, appear |
φάντασμα | Ancient Greek (grc) | phantázō: phantom, apparition, ghost |
phantasma | Latin (lat) | Apparition, spectre, phantom. Image, appearance. |
fantosme | Old French (fro) | Ghost (apparition). |
fantom | Middle English (enm) | |
phantom | English (en) | An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion.. Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or apparition; something elusive or delusive. Fictitious or nonexistent.. Illusive. |