Translation
spice
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Word origin
From Latin species, a kind or sort, which in late Latin came to mean goods and then specifically the costly aromatic goods of the spice trade. English spice and species are the same word arriving by two roads.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- species
- English cognates
- spice, species, special
Examples
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She added a spice to the soup.
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Without salt and spices the meat is dry.
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In the market they sell spices from all over the world.
One root, no seam. is - plus the noun ending, and the -ic- in the middle is part of the root rather than anything you can peel off. Esperanto has no official -ic- suffix at all, so there is nothing to mis-decode here: the word simply is what it is.
The family it does grow. is spicy, is to season something, o is a seasoning as a substance, and o is the pot it lives in. works in Esperanto exactly as a spicy story does in English, and it is a metaphor Zamenhof's contemporaries used too.
Salt sits outside the family. Salo is not a in careful usage, any more than it is a spice in a careful English cookbook, and sukero is not one either. Both are their own roots. Pipro (pepper) is the archetypal , and covers cinnamon, cloves, ginger and the rest of what made the trade routes worth sailing.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 24, lesson 8: spico, reputacio, tendaro and 7 more words.