scepter - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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• 1 English
  • 1.1 Noun
  • 1.2 Verb
    * 1.2.1 Derived terms
  • 1.3 Anagrams
• 2 Danish
  • 2.1 Etymology
  • 2.2 Noun
    * 2.2.1 Declension
    * 2.2.2 Derived terms
  • 2.3 References
• 3 Dutch
  • 3.1 Pronunciation
  • 3.2 Noun

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scepter (plural scepters)

1. American and archaic form of sceptre.

scepter (third-person singular simple present scepters, present participle sceptering, simple past and past participle sceptered)

1. American form of sceptre.

• scepterellate

• Sceptre, recepts, respect, sceptre, specter, spectre

From Latin scēptrum, from Ancient Greek σκῆπτρον (skêptron).

scepter n (singular definite scepteret or sceptret, plural indefinite sceptre)

1. sceptre
   Synonym: (dated) spir

• kongescepter
• “scepter” in Den Danske Ordbog

scepter m (plural scepters, diminutive sceptertje n)

1. sceptre

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