spectre

spectre (plural spectres)

1. British standard spelling of specter.
   • 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 264:

     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, […]

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

Learned borrowing from Latin spectrum.

• IPA^(key): /spɛktʁ/

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spectre m (plural spectres)

1. ghost, specter

   Dans la nuit, il vit un spectre apparaître. ― In the night, he saw a specter appear.

2. spectrum

   Le spectre de la lumière blanche est un spectre continu. ― The spectrum of white light is a continuous spectrum.

• spectral

• “spectre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• respect

• IPA^(key): [ˈspek.tre]

spectre n pl

1. plural of spectru