Where does “specio” come from?
specio (Esperanto) comes from Italian specie, from Latin speciēs, from Latin speciō, from Proto-Italic spekjō, from Proto-Indo-European spéḱyeti, from Proto-Indo-European speḱ- — to see, to look, to observe.
specio (Esperanto): species
Definitions
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Ancestry of “specio”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | specie | especially, particularly; kind, type, sort;... |
| 2 | Latin | speciēs | seeing, view, look |
| 3 | Latin | speciō | to observe, watch, look at |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | spekjō | to observe, to see |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | spéḱyeti | to be looking at, to keep looking at |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | speḱ- | to see, to look, to observe |