sceptre

• scepter (American)

From Middle English septre, sceptre, from Old French sceptre, from Latin scēptrum, from Ancient Greek σκῆπτρον (skêptron, “staff, stick, baton”), from σκήπτω (skḗptō, “to prop, to support, to lean upon a staff”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛptə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛptɚ/

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sceptre (plural sceptres)

1. (UK) An ornamental staff held by a ruling monarch as a symbol of power.

   Synonyms: golden wand, royal wand

• was-sceptre

sceptre (third-person singular simple present sceptres, present participle sceptring, simple past and past participle sceptred)

1. To give a sceptre to.
   • 1713, Thomas Tickell, On the Prospect of Peace:

     To Britain's queen the sceptred suppliant bends.

2. To invest with royal power.

• recepts, respect, scepter, specter, spectre

Borrowed from Latin scēptrum, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek σκῆπτρον (skêptron).

• IPA^(key): /sɛptʁ/

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sceptre m (plural sceptres)

1. sceptre

• “sceptre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.