fantosme

See also: fantôme

French

Noun

fantosme m (plural fantosmes)

Obsolete form of fantôme.

Middle English

Noun

fantosme

Alternative form of fantome

Old French

Alternative forms

fantasme

Etymology

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.

Noun

fantosme oblique singular, m (oblique plural fantosmes, nominative singular fantosmes, nominative plural fantosme)

ghost (apparition)
- c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:
  Mes qui l’apele il ne le sot :
  Fantosme cuide que ce soit.
  Mais he did not know who was calling him
  He thought that it was a ghost

Descendants

French: fantôme (see there for further descendants)
Norman: fantôme
→ Middle Dutch: fantome
- Dutch: fantoom
→ Middle English: fantome, fantam, fantem, fanteme, fantesme, fantime, fantom, fantosme, fantoum, fantum, fantym
- English: phantom, phantasm
- Scots: phanton

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