phantasmagoria

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromφάντασμα“ghost”
2. French · borrowed fromphantasmagorie
3. English todayphantasmagoria

Borrowed from French phantasmagorie, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “ghost”) + possibly either ἀγορά (agorá, “assembly, gathering”) + the suffix -ia or ἀγορεύω (agoreúō, “to speak publicly”).

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