Where does “fantasmă” come from?
fantasmă (Romanian) comes from Italian fantasma, from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα, from Ancient Greek φαντάζω, from Ancient Greek φαίνω, from English -type, from Ancient Greek τύπος, from Ancient Greek τύπτω — to push, to hit.
fantasmă (Romanian): phantasm
Definitions
- phantasm
Ancestry of “fantasmă”, step by step
fantasmă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian fantasma
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | fantasma | ghost, spectre; illusion |
| 2 | Latin | phantasma | image, appearance; apparition, spectre, phantom |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | φάντασμα | phantom, apparition, ghost; vision, dream;... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | φαντάζω | to show; to make visible; to place before one's... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | φαίνω | I cause to appear, bring to light; I show,... |
| 6 | English | -type | impressed form; stamp; print; typical form; Used... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | τύπος | A blow, pressing; The results of a blow: mark,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | τύπτω | to beat, strike, smite; to beat, strike oneself |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)tewp- | to push, to stick |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)tew- | to push, to hit |
via French fantasme
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | fantasme | fantasy; hallucination; first-person singular... |