phasma

== English == === Etymology === From Latin phasma (“ghost, spirit”). === Noun === phasma (plural phasmas) (obsolete) A phasmid. == Latin == === Etymology === 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 An apparation, specter, phantom. ==== Inflection ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). ==== Descendants ==== → Translingual: Phasma ⇒ English: phasmid ==== See also ==== lemures === References === “phasma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press