phasma

See also: Phasma

English

Etymology

From Latin phasma (“ghost, spirit”).

Noun

phasma (plural phasmas)

1. (obsolete) A phasmid.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 395:

     The true Paradise Birds are omnivorous, feeding on fruits and insects - of the former preferring the small figs; of the latter, grasshoppers, locusts, and phasmas, as well as cockroaches and caterpillars.

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂n̥yéti

Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō

Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Hellenic *-mə

Ancient Greek -μα (-ma)

Ancient Greek φάσμα (phásma)bor.

Latin phasma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φάσμα (phásma, “apparation, phantom”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʰas.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaz.ma]

Noun

phasma n (genitive phasmatis); third declension

1. An apparation, specter, phantom.

Inflection

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	phasma	phasmata
genitive	phasmatis	phasmatum
dative	phasmatī	phasmatibus
accusative	phasma	phasmata
ablative	phasmate	phasmatibus
vocative	phasma	phasmata

Descendants

• → Translingual: Phasma
• ⇒ English: phasmid

See also

• lemures

References

• “phasma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press