specie en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈspiːʃi.iː/ (obsolete)
- /ˈspiːʃi/
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- /ˈspiːʃiː/ (obsolete)
- /ˈspiːsi/
Etymology
Originally in the phrase in specie; from Latin speciē, ablative singular of species. Compare in kind.
Meanings
- (uncountable) Type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in specie.
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(uncountable) Money in the form of coins made from precious metal that has an intrinsic value; coinage.
“Dick” Counterfly had absquatulated swiftly into the night, leaving his son with only a pocketful of specie and the tender admonition, “Got to ‘scram,’ kid — write if you get work.”
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 8:I received one month's pay in specie while on the march to Virginia, in the year 1781, and except that, I never received any pay worth the name while I belonged to the army.
1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, “Ch. IX”, in A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier:‘It was not money or specie he thought himself hunting!’
1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 805:
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Relateds
payment in kind · sub specie aeterni
Translations (7)
eo speco (classification) · da specie (money) · gv argid meainey (money) · ca espècie (money) · fi raha (money) · bg монети (money) · eo specio (classification)