Scepter
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Middle English: from Old French ceptre, via Latin from Greek skēptron, from skēptein (alteration of skēptesthai ) ‘lean on’.
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scepter (n.)
c. 1300, ceptre, from Old French sceptre (12c.), from Latin sceptrum "royal staff," from Greek skeptron "staff to lean on; royal scepter;" in transferred use, "royalty," from root of skeptein "to prop or stay, lean on." Apparently a cognate with Old English sceaft (see shaft (n.1)). The verb meaning "to furnish with a scepter" is from 1520s. Related: sceptred.
