fantôme

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 Gallic Vulgar Latin in what is now southern France, 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/

Noun

fantôme m (plural fantômes)

1. ghost

Further reading

• “fantôme” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• fomenta

Etymology

From Old French fantosme, from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma).

Noun

fantôme m (plural fantômes)

1. (Jersey) ghost