espécie
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- espécia (obsolete or dialectal)
Etymology
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Learned borrowing from Latin speciēs. Compare Spanish especie, French espèce.
Pronunciation
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Audio (South Brazil): (file) Audio (Portugal (Porto)): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛsji, -ɛsi
- Hyphenation: es‧pé‧ci‧e
Noun
[edit]espécie f (plural espécies)
- (biology, taxonomy) species
- Darwin escreveu "A origem das espécies".
- Darwin wrote "the Origin of Species".
- type, sort, kind
- Synonym: tipo
- Que espécie de idiota é ele?
- What kind of jerk is he?
- (archival science) a document classification according to its disposition or nature
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:espécie.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “espécie”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “espécie”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
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- Portuguese terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *speḱ-
- Portuguese learned borrowings from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Latin
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛsji
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛsji/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛsi
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛsi/3 syllables
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