different between spectre vs spectred

English

Etymology

From French spectre, from Latin spectrum (“appearance, apparition”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?kt?(?)

Noun

spectre (plural spectres)

1. Britain standard spelling of specter.
   • 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

     A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.

Anagrams

• Sceptre, recepts, respect, scepter, sceptre, specter

French

Pronunciation

Noun

spectre m (plural spectres)

1. ghost, specter

   Dans la nuit, il vit un spectre apparaître.

2. spectrum

   Le spectre de la lumière blanche est un spectre continu.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• respect

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?spek.tre]

Noun

spectre n pl

1. plural of spectru

English

Etymology

spectre +? -ed

Adjective

spectred (comparative more spectred, superlative most spectred)

1. ghostly

Anagrams

• sceptred