Morpheme
Phantom
Type
free base
Denotation
appearance, image, apparition, specter
Etymology
Middle English fantome, fanteme, fantum, famtome; Old French fantosme, fantasme; Latin phantasma; Ancient Greek phántasma, from phantázein, from phainein
Evidence
phantom, phantomness, phantoms, phantomwise
Notes
obsolete spelling fantom
<ph> restored by late 16c.
phantom and phantasm are doublets
