sceptre

See also: Sceptre

English

Alternative forms

• scepter (US)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French sceptre, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin sceptrum, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek σκῆπτρον (skêptron, “staff, stick, baton”), from σκήπτω (skḗptō, “to prop, to support, to lean upon a staff”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛptə/

Noun

sceptre (plural sceptres)

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

Derived terms

• was-sceptre

Translations

ornamental staff

• Akkadian: 𒄑𒉺 (hattu)
• Arabic: صَوْلَجَان (ṣawlajān)
• Armenian: գավազան (hy) (gavazan), գայիսոն (hy) (gayison)
• Asturian: cetru m
• Bulgarian: жезъл (bg) m (žezǎl)
• Catalan: ceptre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 權杖／权杖 (zh) (quánzhàng), 权杖 (zh) (quánzhàng)

• Czech: žezlo (cs) n
• Danish: scepter c
• Dutch: scepter (nl) m
• Esperanto: sceptro
• Faroese: veldisstavur m
• Finnish: valtikka (fi)
• French: sceptre (fr) m
• Galician: cetro m
• Georgian: კვერთხი (ḳvertxi)
• German: Zepter (de) n
• Greek: σκήπτρο (el) n (skíptro)

  Ancient Greek: σκῆπτρον n (skêptron)

• Hebrew: שרביט (he)
• Hungarian: jogar (hu)
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• Italian: scettro (it) m
• Japanese: 王笏 (おうしゃく, ōshaku)
• Latin: sceptrum n, baculum
• Macedonian: жезол m (žezol)
• Maori: hepeta
• Norwegian: septer m
• Old English: cyneġierd f
• Polish: berło (pl) n
• Portuguese: cetro (pt)
• Romanian: sceptru (ro)
• Russian: ски́петр (ru) m (skípetr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жезло n

  Roman: žezlo (sh) n

• Slovak: žezlo (sk) n
• Slovene: žezlo (sl) n
• Spanish: cetro (es) m
• Sumerian: 𒄑𒉺 (^gišGIDRU, ^gišPA)
• Swahili: fimbo ya kifalme
• Swedish: spira (sv) c
• Tagalog: setro
• Turkish: hükümdar asası

Verb

1. To give a sceptre to.
   • Tickell

     To Britain's queen the sceptred suppliant bends.

2. To invest with royal power.

Anagrams

• recepts, respect, scepter, specter, spectre

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French

Noun

sceptre m (plural sceptres)

1. sceptre