pantasma

• fantasma

pantasma f (plural pantasmes)

1. ghost, phantom

Borrowed from Spanish fantasma, borrowed from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “image, phantom”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “I make visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “I cause to appear, bring to light”).

• Hyphenation: pan‧tas‧ma
• IPA^(key): /panˈtasma/, [pʌn̪ˈt̪as̪.mʌ]

pantasma

1. ghost; phantasm
2. (Cebu, folklore) light or flame that has the ability to copy the size, shape or height of the thing it is standing next to

From Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “image, phantom”).

• IPA^(key): /panˈtasma̝/

pantasma f (plural pantasmas)

1. ghost, phantom
   • 1885, V.P., Un conto:

     pampeou como si vira a pantasma que corre por riba dos eidos e brinca os valados sin pór pé nin siquera nunha herba.

     He got bewildered as if he was seeing the phantom that runs over the fields and leaps the fences without even trampling a single herb

• “pantasma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pantasma” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pantasma” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.