fantom
English
Ladin
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French fantosme, from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fanˈtɔːm/, /ˈfantɔm/, /ˈfantum/, /ˈfantəm/, /fanˈtɛːm/
Noun
fantom (plural fantoms)
- Something that is ephemeral or transient; worldly wealth (as opposed to spiritual gains).
- An experience or happening that is non-real or phantasmic; something which is misleading or a phantom.
- A lie or misconception; something which is untrue or divorced from reality.
- (rare) Deceitfulness or fraudulence; the practice or art of conniving to trick.
- (rare, medicine) A hallucination or state of deliriousness brought on by illness.
Descendants
- English: phantom
- Scots: phanton
References
- “fantō̆m, -um, -em n.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-3.
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fǎntoːm/
- Hyphenation: fan‧tom
Swedish
Alternative forms
- phantom (archaic)
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