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Etymology
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From French spectre, from Latin spectrum (“appearance, apparition”). Doublet of spectrum.
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specter (plural specters) (American spelling)
- A ghostly apparition, a phantom. [from 17th c.]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ghost
A specter haunted the cemetery at the old Vasquez manor.
- (figuratively) A threatening mental image. [from 18th c.]
1848, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, translated by Samuel Moore, The Communist Manifesto:A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
2022 September 27, Mark Landler, “Truss Takes a Bold Economic Gamble. Will It Sink Her Government?”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:Already, the specter of higher interest rates was causing the housing market to seize up.
- (entomology) Any of certain species of dragonfly of the genus Boyeria, family Aeshnidae. [from 20th c.]
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ghostly apparition
- Albanian: abe (sq) f, stihi (sq) f, hije (sq) f
- Arabic: شَبَح m (šabaḥ), شَبْح m (šabḥ)
- Belarusian: пры́від (be) m (prývid)
- Bulgarian: призрак (bg) m (prizrak), привиде́ние (bg) n (prividénie)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 幽靈／幽灵 (zh) (yōulíng), 鬼魂 (zh) (guǐhún)
- Czech: strašidlo (cs) n, přízrak m
- Egyptian: (ꜣḫ)
- Esperanto: fantomo, apero
- Finnish: kummitus (fi)
- French: spectre (fr)
- German: Gespenst (de) n, Spuk (de) m
- Greek: φάντασμα (el) (fántasma)
- Ancient: φάσμα n (phásma), φάντασμα n (phántasma)
- Hindi: भूत (hi) m (bhūt)
- Irish: arracht m
- Italian: spettro (it) m, fantasma (it) m
- Japanese: 幽霊 (ja) (ゆうれい, yūrei), 亡霊 (ja) (ぼうれい, bōrei)
- Korean: 유령(幽靈) (ko) (yuryeong)
- Latin: spectrum n, phasma (la) n
- Old English: scucca m
- Persian: شبح (fa) (šabah)
- Polish: widmo (pl) n, zjawa (pl) f
- Portuguese: espectro (pt) m, aparição (pt) f
- Romanian: spectru (ro) n, fantomă (ro) f, fantasmă (ro) f
- Russian: при́зрак (ru) m (prízrak), привиде́ние (ru) n (prividénije), фанто́м (ru) m (fantóm)
- Scottish Gaelic: sgàile f, tannasg m, taibhse m or f
- Spanish: espectro (es) m
- Sumerian: 𒄇 (/gidim/), 𒆤 (/lil/), 𒋝𒋝 (/sisig/)
- Swedish: vålnad (sv), spöke (sv) n
- Ukrainian: при́вид m (prývyd)
- Urdu: بهوت m (bhūt)
- Vietnamese: bóng ma (vi), ma (vi)
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