Where does “spezie” come from?

spezie (Italian) comes from German Spezies, 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.

spezie (Italian): spices

Definitions

  1. spices

Ancestry of “spezie”, step by step

spezie traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Spezies

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanSpeziesspecies
2Latinspeciēsseeing, view, look
3Latinspeciōto observe, watch, look at
4Proto-Italicspekjōto observe, to see
5Proto-Indo-Europeanspéḱyetito be looking at, to keep looking at
6Proto-Indo-Europeanspeḱ-to see, to look, to observe

via Late Latin species

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Late Latinspeciesspice, good, ware; a seeing, view, look; a...
2Classical Latinspeciēs—

Words derived from “spezie”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European speḱ- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European spéḱyeti →Every word from Proto-Italic spekjō →