Noun: phasm
| Singular | phasm |
| Plural | phasms; phasma |
Sample Sentences
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For heart is besides that from thence proceed many aerial fictions , and not from God, phasms, and chimeras , created by the vanity of our own hearts [1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:]
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After a small space the lights‥extinguish, and‥the Phasma having assumed a bodily shape or other false representation accompanies her. [1677, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great:]
Nouns inflected like phasm
peraeopod,
pleopod,
autonomous okrug,
cadaver,
trehantiri,
cataphor,
bhaji,
okrug,
tuath,
penni,
phasm,
starr,
anaphor,
pseudepigraph,
souflaki,
souvlaki,
endoplasm,
menologem,
atrament,
exopod, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin phasma or Ancient Greek φάσμα (phásma). See phase. See: Latin Nouns '
phasma', Ancient Greek Nouns '
φάσμα'.