Ancient Greek

Noun

φάντασμα • ‎(phántasma) n ‎(genitive φαντάσματος); third declension

1. phantom, apparition, ghost
2. vision, dream
3. (in the plural) phenomena
4. fantasy (= φαντασία ‎(phantasía))

Inflection

References

• φάντασμα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φάντασμα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «φάντασμα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G5326”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • apparition idem, page 34.
  • appearance idem, page 35.
  • form idem, page 338.
  • ghost idem, page 358.
  • illusion idem, page 416.
  • phantom idem, page 610.
  • shade idem, page 760.
  • shape idem, page 762.
  • spectre idem, page 800.
  • spirit idem, page 802.
  • vision idem, page 954.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φάντασμα ‎(phántasma)

Noun

φάντασμα • ‎(fántasma) n ‎(plural φαντάσματα)

1. ghost, fantasy, phantom, spectre (UK), specter (US)

Declension

Synonyms

• στοιχειό n ‎(stoicheió)
• πνεύμα n ‎(pnévma)

See also

• φάσμα n ‎(fásma, “spectre”)