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);

Von speciō (“sehe”) +‎ -iēs.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈspɛ.ki.eːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈspɛː.t͡ʃi.es]

Noun

speciēs f (genitive speciēī); fifth declension

1. seeing, view, look
2. spectacle, sight

   Synonym: faciēs

3. 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.

4. semblance, pretence, pretense, pretext, outward show (per + genitive)

   Synonym: obtentus

5. show, display
6. point of view, perspective
7. (figuratively) vision, dream, apparition
8. (figuratively) honor, reputation
9. (figuratively) a kind, quality, type
10. (law, later) a special case
11. (in the plural, New Latin) tea blend

    speciēs dīgestīvae ― digestive tea

Declension

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.