phantom

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰh₂nyéti
3. Proto-Hellenic*pʰáňňō
4. Ancient Greekφαίνω (phaínō)
5. Ancient Greekφᾰντᾰ́ζω (phăntắzō)
6. Ancient Greekφάντασμα (phántasma)
7. Latinphantasma
8. Old Frenchfantosme
9. Middle Englishfantome
10. English todayphantom

Inherited from Middle English fantome, fanteme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to make visible”). Doublet of phantasm.

Words from the same roots