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specie en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈspiːʃi.iː/ (obsolete)
  • /ˈspiːʃi/
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈspiːʃiː/ (obsolete)
  • /ˈspiːsi/

Etymology

Originally in the phrase in specie; from Latin speciē, ablative singular of species. Compare in kind.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in specie.
  2. (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:

Antonyms

paper

Deriveds

nonspecie · specie point

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)

specie en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈspiːʃi.iː/ (obsolete)
  • /ˈspiːʃi/
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈspiːʃiː/ (obsolete)
  • /ˈspiːsi/

Etymology

Back-formation from species (plural), the final “s” being misinterpreted as a plural ending.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, hypercorrect, singular) singular of species
    form of species

Forms

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