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specie.

mortar (mixture of lime or cement, sand and water)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈspeː.si/
  1. mortar (mixture of lime or cement, sand and water)

    feminine · no-diminutive
  2. material used in casting

    feminine · no-diminutive
  3. coinage, specie, coins

    feminine · no-diminutive
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch specie (“kind, sort”, 14th c.), borrowed from Latin speciēs. The sense “mortar” also appears in spijs, Middle Dutch spise (literally “food”), and it is not clear which of the two words developed it first; compare German Speis, Maurerspeise.

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