different between sceptre vs ferula

English

Alternative forms

• scepter (US)

Etymology

From Middle English septre, sceptre, from Old French sceptre, from Latin sc?ptrum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (skêptron, “staff, stick, baton”), from ?????? (sk?pt?, “to prop, to support, to lean upon a staff”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?pt?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?pt?/

Noun

sceptre (plural sceptres)

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

Derived terms

• was-sceptre

Translations

Verb

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

1. To give a sceptre to.
   • 1713, Thomas Tickell, On the Prospect of Peace

     To Britain's queen the sceptred suppliant bends.

2. To invest with royal power.

Anagrams

• recepts, respect, scepter, specter, spectre

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sc?ptrum, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (skêptron).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?pt?/

Noun

sceptre m (plural sceptres)

1. sceptre

Further reading

• “sceptre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Latin ferula (“giant fennel (whose stalks were once used in punishing schoolboys); rod, whip”), from ferire (“to strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f???l?/

Noun

ferula (plural ferulas or ferulae)

1. (obsolete) A ferule.

   • He humbles with a ferula the tall ones

2. (archaic) A stroke from a cane.
   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, p.50)

     And Old Barrett has a new way of twisting the note so that you can't open it and fold it again to see how many ferulae you are to get.

3. (obsolete) The imperial sceptre in the Byzantine Empire.

Translations

Anagrams

• Laufer, earful

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain but perhaps connected to fest?ca (“stalk, straw”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fe.ru.la/, [?f?????ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fe.ru.la/, [?f???ul?]

Noun

ferula f (genitive ferulae); first declension

1. cane
2. giant fennel or its stalk
3. vocative singular of ferula

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• French: férule
• Spanish: férula, cañaherla, cañaheja
• Translingual: Ferula

Noun

ferul? f

1. ablative singular of ferula

References

• ferula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ferula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ferula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ferula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette