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specie

specie is a Latin form of species, meaning “appearance, sight; kind”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 386 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.31.1: Ubi vero moveri et adpropinquare muris viderunt, nova atque inusitata specie commoti legatos ad Caesarem de pace miserunt, qui ad hunc modum locuti,

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 11_13.87.33: … aberent efficientem causam; nunc praecedentem habent et quidem non inritantem tantum animos, sed adtrahentem. Specie enim boni offundunt veri similem ac plerisque credibilem.

Plautus, Trinummus 4.1.841: cum nóvo ornatu speciéque simul?

All forms of species (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.