sceptre

English

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Alternative forms

• scepter (US)

Etymology

Old French sceptre, from Latin sceptrum, from Ancient Greek σκῆπτρον (skeptron, “staff, stick, baton”), from σκήπτω (skepto, “to prop, to support, to lean upon a staff”).

Noun

sceptre (plural sceptres)

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

Translations

ornamental staff

• Arabic: صولجان (ar) (saulajaan)
• Armenian: գավազան (hy) (gavazan)
• Asturian: cetru (ast) m
• Catalan: ceptre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 權杖 (cmn), 权杖 (cmn) (quánzhàng)

• Czech: žezlo (cs) n
• Esperanto: sceptro (eo)
• Faroese: veldisstavur (fo) m
• Finnish: valtikka (fi)
• French: sceptre (fr) m
• Galician: cetro (gl) m
• German: Zepter (de) n
• Greek: σκήπτρο (el) (skíptro) n

• Hungarian: jogar (hu)
• Italian: scettro (it) m
• Japanese: 王笏 (ja) (おうしゃく, ōshaku)
• Latin: sceptrum (la) n, baculum (la)
• Polish: berło (pl) n
• Portuguese: cetro (pt)
• Romanian: sceptru (ro)
• Russian: ски́петр (ru) (skípetr) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жезло (sh) n

  Roman: žezlo (sh) n

• Spanish: cetro (es) m
• Swahili: fimbo ya kifalme (sw)
• Turkish: hükümdar asası (tr)

Verb

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

1. To give a sceptre to.
   • Tickell

     To Britain's queen the sceptred suppliant bends.

Anagrams

• respect, scepter, specter, spectre