Where does “species” come from?
Species comes from Latin speciēs, meaning appearance or form, derived from the Proto-Indo-European root speḱ- meaning to look or observe.
species (English): Type or kind; An image, an appearance, a...
Definitions
- Type or kind; An image, an appearance, a...
Ancestry of “species”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | specie | Type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in... |
| 2 | English | Species | — |
| 3 | Latin | speciēs | — |
| 4 | Latin | speciō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | spekjō | to observe, to see |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | spéḱyeti | to be looking at, to keep looking at |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | speḱ- | to see, to look, to observe |
Words derived from “species”