sceptre

• scepter (US)

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛptə/

sceptre (plural sceptres)

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

• was-sceptre

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.

2. To invest with royal power.

• recepts, respect, restecp, scepter, specter, spectre

sceptre m (plural sceptres)

1. sceptre