spectre
English
Noun
spectre (plural spectres)
- Britain standard spelling of specter.
- 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], OCLC 84390265:
- To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner […]
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Anagrams
- Sceptre, recepts, respect, scepter, sceptre, specter
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin spectrum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spɛktʁ/
Audio (file)
Noun
spectre m (plural spectres)
- ghost, specter
- Dans la nuit, il vit un spectre apparaître. ― In the night, he saw a specter appear.
- spectrum
- Le spectre de la lumière blanche est un spectre continu. ― The spectrum of white light is a continuous spectrum.
Derived terms
- spectral
Further reading
- “spectre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- respect
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈspek.tre]
Noun
spectre n pl
- plural of spectru