fantasma

fantasma f (plural fantasmes)

1. Alternative form of pantasma

Borrowed from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /fənˈtaz.mə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fanˈtaz.ma/

fantasma m (plural fantasmes)

1. ghost, phantom

fantasma

1. third-person singular past historic of fantasmer

Borrowed from Latin phantasma, or Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma).[1]

fantasma m (plural fantasmi)

1. ghost, spectre

   città fantasma ― ghost town

2. illusion

• fantasmagoria
• fantasmagorico

• phantasma (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin phantasma (“apparition, specter”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “I make visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “I cause to appear, bring to light”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh- (“to shine”).

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fɐ̃.ˈtaz.ma/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɐ̃.ˈt̪aʒ.mɐ/

fantasma m, f or m (in variation) (plural fantasmas)

1. ghost (spirit appearing after death)

   Synonyms: aparição, espectro, espírito, assombração, alma

The gender of fantasma varies from person to person:

• some use it as a masculine when referring to the ghost of a man and feminine when referring to the ghost of a woman;
• some use it as a masculine always, irrespective of the ghost’s sex;
• in the past, it was also used as a feminine noun always.

• fantasmagoria
• fantasmagórico

Borrowed from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “image, phantom”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “I make visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “I cause to appear, bring to light”).

• IPA^(key): /fanˈtasma/, [fãn̪ˈt̪azma]

fantasma m (plural fantasmas)

1. ghost, phantom

   El fantasma de la ópera. ― The Phantom of the Opera.

2. (colloquial) show-off

• fantasmal
• ciudad fantasma f
• pueblo fantasma f
• gol fantasma m

• fantasmagoría

• “fantasma” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.