spice – English noun declension

English noun forms of spice

Noun: spice
Singularspice
Pluralspices

Sample Sentences

  • Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 242:]
  • What spice level do you want for your pad thai? I recommend mild.
  • variety is the spice of life
  • Honor, a^([sic]) 18-year-old high school student who thinks she has it more together than her fellow students and who looks to both Leslie and Bernie to provide friendship and spice in her life. [1979 April 28, Allen Young, “The Joy of Gay Lit”, in Gay Community News: The Gay Weekly, volume 6, number 39, Boston, Mass., →ISSN, page 13, column 3:]
  • Let's go daan to t'spice shop an see what they've i stock
  • "I'm not going to promise anything after the perfectly fetid way you're running off," she retorted. "Still, it's pretty obvious that I shall stay here and do what I can for poor Geoffrey in the circumstances." It occurred to the hearer […] that there was a spice of "It is my duty and I will" in this praiseworthy resolve which fell short of the ecstatic resolution of the Saturday Nora. [1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
4. Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
5. Proto-Italic *spekjō
6. Latin speciō
7. Proto-Italic *-jēs
8. Latin -iēs
9. Late Latin speciēs
10. Old French espicebor.
11. Anglo-Norman specebor.
12. Middle English spice
13. English spice
14. Inherited from Middle English spice, from Old French espice (modern épice), from Late Latin speciēs (“spice, good, ware”), from Latin speciēs (“kind, sort”). Doublet of species. See: Middle English Nouns 'spice', Middle English Nouns 'spice', Latin Nouns 'speciēs'.