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Specie and Species
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JOhn a cramer <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 17 Jun 1998 08:38:26 -0400
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Jenny,
Our word "species" comes directly from Latin "species" meaning "kind."  Our
word "specie" is the ablative of (the nominative) "species" and it means
"in kind" as in "payment in kind."  Thus, our two words are just two
different case of the same Latin word.

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