Noun: specie
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
| Sg. | specie |
| Pl. | speciën; species |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like specie
weerssituatie,
jurisdictie,
evangelie,
schalie,
akademie,
motorolie,
eminentie,
monopolie,
slavenkolonie,
negotie,
provincie,
malie,
assurantie,
tragedie,
arterie,
academie,
materie,
strafkolonie,
venditie,
taxatie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch specie (“kind, sort”, 14th c.), borrowed from Latin speciēs. The sense “mortar” also appears in spijs, Middle Dutch spise (literally “food”), and it is not clear which of the two words developed it first; compare German Speis, Maurerspeise. See: Latin Nouns '
speciēs', German Nouns '
Speis'.
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