spesies

Afrikaans

Noun

spesies

  1. plural of spesie

Finnish

Etymology

Coined by the Swedish Neogrammarian linguist Adolf Noreen in 1904, adopted into Finnish grammatical vocabulary in 1915.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈspeːsies/, [ˈs̠pe̞ːs̠ie̞s̠]

Noun

spesies

  1. (grammar, dated) definiteness or indefiniteness (the quality of a language of expressing the nouns and noun phrases in either definite or indefinite form; the Indoeuropean languages generally have this quality whereas some others, like the Finno-Ugric languages, don't)

Usage notes
  • Biological species is laji in Finnish.

Declension
Inflection of spesies (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative spesies spesiekset
genitive spesieksen spesiesten
spesieksien
partitive spesiestä spesieksiä
illative spesiekseen spesieksiin
singular plural
nominative spesies spesiekset
accusative nom. spesies spesiekset
gen. spesieksen
genitive spesieksen spesiesten
spesieksien
partitive spesiestä spesieksiä
inessive spesieksessä spesieksissä
elative spesieksestä spesieksistä
illative spesiekseen spesieksiin
adessive spesieksellä spesieksillä
ablative spesiekseltä spesieksiltä
allative spesiekselle spesieksille
essive spesieksenä spesieksinä
translative spesiekseksi spesieksiksi
instructive — spesieksin
abessive spesieksettä spesieksittä
comitative — spesieksineen
Possessive forms of spesies (type vastaus)
possessor singular plural
1st person spesiekseni spesieksemme
2nd person spesieksesi spesieksenne
3rd person spesieksensä

Synonyms

Hyponyms

Further reading
  • "Definiteness in Finnish", article by Andrew Chesterman

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, learned borrowing from Latin speciēs.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /spɛ.ˈsi.ɛs/
  • Rhymes: -ɛs, -s
  • Hyphenation: spe‧si‧es

Noun

spesies (plural spesies-spesies, first-person possessive spesiesku, second-person possessive spesiesmu, third-person possessive spesiesnya)

  1. species:
    1. (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below genus; a taxon at that rank.
    2. (chemistry, physics) A particular type of atom, molecule, ion or other particle.

Derived terms
  • spesies fokus
  • spesies invasif
  • spesies kunci
  • spesies nitrogen reaktif
  • spesies oksigen reaktif
  • spesies payung
  • spesies reaktif oksigen

Further reading
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