fantosme

fantosme m (plural fantosmes)

1. Obsolete form of fantôme.

fantosme

1. Alternative form of fantome

• fantasme

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.

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

1. 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

• 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