specio

Borrowed from Italian spècie, from Latin speciēs. Compare German Spezies, French espèce. Related to specifa (“specific”). Doublet of spico.

• IPA^(key): /speˈt͡sio/

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• Rhymes: -io
• Syllabification: spe‧ci‧o
• Hyphenation: speci‧o

specio (accusative singular specion, plural specioj, accusative plural speciojn)

2. (biology, taxonomy) species

• subspecio (“subspecies”)

• spiciō

Inherited from Proto-Italic *spekjō, from Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti.

Cognates include Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai), Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬯𐬫𐬈𐬌𐬙𐬌 (spasyeⁱti), and Sanskrit पश्यति (páśyati).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈspɛ.ki.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈspɛː.t͡ʃi.o]
• Hyphenation: spe‧ci‧ō

speciō (present infinitive specere, perfect active spexī, supine spectum); third (-iō variant) conjugation

1. (Old Latin, rare) to observe, watch, look at

   Synonyms: cōnspicor, īnspectō, īnspiciō, intueor, invīsō, spectō, suspiciō, tueor, videō, vīsō

• “spĕcĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• specio in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2749
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “specere”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• “specio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1463.
• Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “speciō”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands‎^[2], 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC

Inherited from Vulgar Latin speclum, from Latin speculum. Compare Italian spècchio.

spècio m (plural speci)

2. mirror (smooth reflecting surface)