phantom
意味
- 幽霊,お化け(ghost)
- (心に浮かぶ) 幻影, 幻像
- 幻の,幽霊のような
例文
I caught a glimpse of the phantom sitting behind the wheel.
車を運転している幽霊を見た。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Inherited from Middle English fantome, fanteme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to make visible”). Doublet of phantasm.