specio

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

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• IPA^(key): /speˈt͡sio/
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: spe‧ci‧o

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

1. (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]

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

1. to observe, watch, look at

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

• “specio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• specio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Vulgar Latin speclum, from Latin speculum. Compare Italian specchio.

specio m (plural speci)

1. mirror