spectacle

Значение (Английский)

1. An exciting or extraordinary scene, exhibition, performance etc.
2. An embarrassing or unedifying scene or situation.
3. glasses (instrument used to assist vision)
4. The brille of a snake.
5. A frame with different coloured lenses on a semaphore signal through which light from a lamp shines at night, often a part of the signal arm.

Пишется через дефис как

spec‧ta‧cle

Произносится как (IPA)

/ˈspɛktəkl̩/

Этимология (Английский)

From Middle English spectacle, from Middle French spectacle, from Latin spectāculum (“a show, spectacle”), from spectō (“to see, behold”), frequentative of speciō (“to see”). See species. Doublet of spectaculum.