# spec
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspɛk/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛk
* Homophone: speck

### Noun

spec (plural specs)
* (colloquial) Clipping of specification.
    job spec
    The specs don't say anything about this behavior.
* (colloquial) Clipping of speculation.
** 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:This is told in confidence to the servant-man or woman who opens the door—‘be so good as tell the lady as much,’ says the hawker, ‘for really I’m afraid to carry the goods much longer, and I have already sold enough to pay me well enough for my spec—go, there’s a good girl, tell your missus I have splendid goods, and am willing almost to give them away, and if we makes a deal of it, why I don’t mind giving you a handsome present for yourself.’
* Clipping of specialization.
* Clipping of specialist.
* Clipping of special.
* Clipping of spectrum.
* (linguistics) Abbreviation of specifier.
* (linguistics) Clipping of specifier.
* (Australia, Australian rules football, informal) Clipping of spectacular mark. (a type of catch in Australian rules football).

#### Derived terms

* a-spec
* high-spec
* mass spec
* mil-spec
* m-spec
* on spec
* spec home
* spec script

#### Translations
### Verb

spec (third-person singular simple present specs, present participle speccing or spec'ing, simple past and past participle specced or spec'd)
* (transitive) To specify, especially in a formal specification document.
** 1999, George Buehler, The Troller Yacht Book:I've found some professional yards want everything specced out completely while a home builder will just do things the way he wants.
** 1995, Fred Moody, I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier:Could they still include the kinds of playful animations Ballinger had specced now that the scenes were more realistic-looking and less whimsical?
** 2024 January 24, Pip Dunn, “Adventure on a GA Class 720 Aventra”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 53:And if that is my only criticism, then these trains are pretty well 'specced'. These are an out-and-out commuter train - fast, quiet, and well-designed for their role.

#### Derived terms

* spec out
* spec up

#### Translations
### See also

* spec evo
* spec ops

### Anagrams

* CEPs, CPEs, CSPE, ECPs, EPCs, PESC, Pécs, ceps, pecs

## Albanian
### Alternative forms

* speckë — Tosk

### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian spezie (“spices”), ultimately from Latin speciēs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /spɛt͡s/

### Noun

spec m (plural speca, definite speci, definite plural specat)
* (botany) pepper (Capsicum annuum)
    Synonym: piperkë
* paprika
* (figurative) (adjective) cranky

#### Synonyms

* gogozhare

### References

* ↑ Buletin, Universiteti Shtetëror i Tiranës, 1958
* ↑ Topalli, K. (2017) “spec”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1337
* ↑ Meyer, G. (1891) “spec”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 454

## Chinese
### Etymology

From clipping of English specification.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /spɛːk̚²/

### Noun

spec
* (Hong Kong Cantonese) specification (Classifier: 隻／只 c)

## Old English
### Noun

speċ n
* Alternative form of spiċ

## Polish
### Etymology

Clipping of specjalista, though perhaps borrowed from Russian спе́ц (spéc), a clipping of специали́ст (specialíst).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspɛt͡s/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛt͡s
* Syllabification: spec

### Noun

spec m pers
* (colloquial) specialist, expert
    Synonyms: specjalista, ekspert, fachowiec

#### Declension
### Further reading

* spec in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* spec in Polish dictionaries at PWN