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spesies

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Afrikaans

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Noun

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spesies

  1. plural of spesie

Finnish

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Etymology

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Coined by the Swedish Neogrammarian linguist Adolf Noreen in 1904, adopted into Finnish grammatical vocabulary in 1915.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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spesies (dated)

  1. (grammar) definiteness or indefiniteness (the quality of a language of expressing the nouns and noun phrases in either definite or indefinite form; the Indoeuropean languages generally have this quality whereas some others, like the Finno-Ugric languages, don't)

Usage notes

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  • Biological species is laji in Finnish.

Declension

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Inflection of spesies (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative spesies spesiekset
genitive spesieksen spesiesten
spesieksien
partitive spesiestä spesieksiä
illative spesiekseen spesieksiin
singular plural
nominative spesies spesiekset
accusative nom. spesies spesiekset
gen. spesieksen
genitive spesieksen spesiesten
spesieksien
partitive spesiestä spesieksiä
inessive spesieksessä spesieksissä
elative spesieksestä spesieksistä
illative spesiekseen spesieksiin
adessive spesieksellä spesieksillä
ablative spesiekseltä spesieksiltä
allative spesiekselle spesieksille
essive spesieksenä spesieksinä
translative spesiekseksi spesieksiksi
abessive spesieksettä spesieksittä
instructive spesieksin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of spesies (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)

Synonyms

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Hyponyms

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Further reading

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  • spesies”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
  • "Definiteness in Finnish", article by Andrew Chesterman [2]

Indonesian

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Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Internationalism, learned borrowing from Latin speciēs.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /spɛ.ˈsi.ɛs/
  • Rhymes: -ɛs, -s
  • Hyphenation: spe‧si‧es

Noun

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spesies (plural spesies-spesies, first-person possessive spesiesku, second-person possessive spesiesmu, third-person possessive spesiesnya)

  1. species:
    1. (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below genus; a taxon at that rank.
    2. (chemistry, physics) A particular type of atom, molecule, ion or other particle.

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Malay

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Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed from English species, from Latin speciēs.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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spesies (Jawi spelling سڤيسيس, plural spesies-spesies, informal 1st possessive spesiesku, 2nd possessive spesiesmu, 3rd possessive spesiesnya)

  1. species
    1. (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below genus; a taxon at that rank.

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