specimen
See also: spécimen
English
Etymology
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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin specimen (“mark, sign, example”), from speciō (“observe, watch”).
Pronunciation
Noun
specimen (plural specimens), also specimina (extremely rare)
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- An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
- early specimens of the art of Picasso
- 2006, Bill Neal, Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier:
- To assure a defendant's acquittal, a lawyer usually needed only to convince the jury that the victim was a pretty sorry specimen of a human being.
- A sample, especially one used for diagnostic analysis.
- (humorous, often preceded with “fine”) An eligible man.
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
example
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sample
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jocular: an eligible man
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Interlingua
Noun
specimen (plural specimens)
Latin
Etymology
From speciō (“observe, watch”) + -men (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈspe.ki.men/, [ˈs̠pɛkɪmɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspe.t͡ʃi.men/, [ˈspɛːt͡ʃimen]
Noun
specimen n (genitive speciminis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | specimen | specimina |
Genitive | speciminis | speciminum |
Dative | speciminī | speciminibus |
Accusative | specimen | specimina |
Ablative | specimine | speciminibus |
Vocative | specimen | specimina |
Descendants
References
- “specimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “specimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- specimen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- an ideal: species optima or eximia, specimen, also simply species, forma
- an ideal: species optima or eximia, specimen, also simply species, forma
- specimen in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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