spécieux
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin speciōsus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]spécieux (feminine spécieuse, masculine plural spécieux, feminine plural spécieuses)
- specious
- Synonyms: captieux, fallacieux
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “spécieux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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- French terms derived from Latin
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- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃ed- (smell)
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