specie
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Originally in the phrase in specie; from Latin speciē, ablative singular of species. Compare payment in kind.
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- IPA: /ˈspiːʃi/
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specie (uncountable)
- Type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in specie.
- Money, especially in the form of coins made from precious metal, that has an intrinsic value; coinage.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 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.”
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 8:
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[edit] Dutch
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specie
- (uncountable) mortar (in sense of mixture of lime or cement, sand and water)
[edit] Italian
[edit] Etymology
Latin species, speciei
[edit] Noun
specie f. (plural: specie)