speciēs
speciēs lat. "Sehen, Gesehenes, Schauen"; ‘das Sehen, der Anblick, Gesicht, Gestalt, äußere Erscheinung, Ideal, Bild, Statue, Art, Fall, einzelnes Stück’,
- daher im Plural ‘einzelne Dinge, die verbunden sind’,
- also auch spätlat. ‘Waren, Gewürze, Drogen’ und dgl. (s. Spezerei);
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈspɛ.ki.eːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈspɛː.t͡ʃi.es]
speciēs f (genitive speciēī); fifth declension
- seeing, view, look
- spectacle, sight
- Synonym: faciēs
- external appearance, looks; general outline or shape
- Synonyms: habitus, fōrma, frōns, faciēs
- Tumor ille locī permānsit, et altī collis habet speciem.
- That elevation of the place remained and it has the appearance of a high hill.
- semblance, pretence, pretense, pretext, outward show (per + genitive)
- Synonym: obtentus
- show, display
- point of view, perspective
- (figuratively) vision, dream, apparition
- (figuratively) honor, reputation
- (figuratively) a kind, quality, type
- (law, later) a special case
- (in the plural, New Latin) tea blend
- speciēs dīgestīvae ― digestive tea
Fifth-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | speciēs | speciēs |
| genitive | speciēī | fōrmārum |
| dative | speciēī | fōrmīs |
| accusative | speciem | speciēs |
| ablative | speciē | fōrmīs |
| vocative | speciēs | speciēs |
In Classical Latin including that of Cicero, inflections of fōrma are used to substitute for the genitive plural and dative and ablative plural.