Word Origin Summary

Φάντασμα is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• phantasmagorian

  English · derived from

• fantasmagoria

  Portuguese · derived from

• fantasma

  Spanish · derived from

• фантазмагорија

  HBS · derived from

• fantazmagorija

  HBS · derived from

• fantôme

  Norman · derived from

• phantasmagoria

  English · derived from

• fantoom

  Estonian · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root