# specie
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspiːʃi/, /ˈspiːsi/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːʃi, -iːsi

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

specie (uncountable)
* Type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in specie.
* Money in the form of coins made from precious metal that has an intrinsic value; coinage.
    Antonym: paper
** 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, “Ch. IX”, in A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier: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.
** 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 805:‘It was not money or specie he thought himself hunting!’
** 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 8:“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.”

##### Derived terms

* specie point

##### Related terms

* sub specie aeterni

##### Translations
#### See also

* payment in kind

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

specie (plural species)
* (proscribed) singular of species

##### Usage notes

* Although in wide use, this is universally considered by prescriptive references to be an error.

### Anagrams

* pieces

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin speciēs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspeː.si/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: spe‧cie
* Rhymes: -eːsi

### Noun

specie f (plural speciën or species)
* mortar (in sense of mixture of lime or cement, sand and water)
    Synonyms: metselspecie, mortel
* coinage, specie, coins
* material used in casting

#### Derived terms

* metselspecie

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin speciēs. Doublet of spezie.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspɛ.t͡ʃe/
* Audio (IT):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛtʃe
* Hyphenation: spè‧cie

### Adverb

specie
* especially, particularly
    Nonostante la sua abilità, Clemens ha avuto poca fama, specie tra i suoi contemporanei.Despite his ability, Clemens had little fame, particularly among his contemporaries.

#### Derived terms

* fare specie (“to amaze, shock”)

### Noun

specie f (invariable)
* kind, type, sort
* (biology) species, strain, breed
* (taxonomy) species

#### Related terms

* cronospecie
* speciale
* speciazione
* specifico

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈspe.ki.eː/, [ˈs̠pɛkieː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈspe.t͡ʃi.e/, [ˈspɛːt͡ʃie]

### Noun

speciē
* ablative singular of speciēs

### Preposition

speciē (+ genitive)
* under the pretext of; under the guise of

### References

* specie in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) in truth; really: re (vera), reapse (opp. specie) (ambiguous) apparently; to look at: specie (De Amic. 13. 47)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin speciēs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspe.t͡ʃi.e/

### Noun

specie f (plural specii)
* (biology) species
* kind, type, sort

#### See also

* gen
* tip
* fel

### Further reading

* specie in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)