phantom: [13] Like fancy and fantasy, phantom goes back ultimately to the Greek verb phantázein ‘make visible’, a derivative of phaínein ‘show’ (source also of English diaphanous and phenomenon [17]). From phantázein was derived the noun phántasma ‘apparition, spectre’, which passed into Latin as phantasma. This reached English in two separate forms: as phantom, via Old French fantosme; and as phantasm [13], via Old French fantasme. The latter formed the basis of the fanciful coinage (originally French) phantasmagoria [19]. Other related English words are emphasis and pant. => diaphanous, emphasis, pant, phase, phenomenon
phantom (n.)
c. 1300, fantum "illusion, unreality," from Old French fantosme (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *fantauma, from Latin phantasma "an apparition" (see phantasm). The ph- was restored in English late 16c. (see ph). Meaning "specter, spirit, ghost" is attested from late 14c.; that of "something having the form, but not the substance, of a real thing" is from 1707. As an adjective from early 15c.
例文
1. The phantom of the merry-go-round is just a local superstition.
メリーゴーランドの幽霊は地元の迷信説にすぎない。
2.The phantom used to appear unexpectedly，but mostly during the winter.
その幽霊は昔は意外なことによく現れたが、多くは冬だった。
3.the phantom of his dead father
亡き父の幽霊
4.I found myself staring at her as if she were a phantom .
私は彼女が幽霊のように目を丸くして彼女を見ていることに気づいた。
5.She was entering the masses with the phantom of a future Utopia.