A specimen stamp Postcard: "Be careful, Clara, that's a fine specimen!" (eligible man) FromLatin specimen ( “ mark, sign, example ” ) , fromspeciō ( “ observe, watch ” ) .
IPA (key ) : /ˈspɛsɪmɪn/ Hyphenation:spe‧ci‧men specimen (plural specimens or ( extremely rare ) specimina
Anindividual instance thatrepresents aclass ; anexample .earlyspecimens of the art of Picasso
2006 Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier :To assure a defendant's acquittal, a lawyer usually needed only to convince the jury that the victim was a pretty sorryspecimen of a human being.
( numismatics ) ( philately ) ( derogatory ) unpleasant orcontemptible person. Asample , especially one used fordiagnostic analysis . ( humorous , often preceded with “fine”) eligible man.example
Armenian:օրինակ (hy) ( ōrinak ) ,նմուշ (hy) ( nmuš ) Azerbaijani:nümunə (az) Bulgarian:образец (bg) m ( obrazec ) Catalan:espècimen m Chinese:Mandarin:樣本 / 样本 (zh) ( yàngběn ) Czech:ukázka (cs) f exemplář (cs) m Danish:eksemplar n Dutch:voorbeeld (nl) n Finnish:esimerkki (fi) French:spécimen (fr) m exemple (fr) m German:Exemplar (de) n Muster (de) n Greek:δείγμα (el) n ( deígma ) Hungarian:példány (hu) Icelandic:sýnataka Italian:esemplare (it) m Japanese:見本 (ja) ( みほん, mihon ) Korean:표본 (ko) ( pyobon ) Latin:specimen n Polish:przykład (pl) m okaz (pl) m osobnik (pl) m ( used for animals ) Portuguese:espécime (pt) m exemplar (pt) m Romanian:specimen (ro) ,exemplar (ro) Russian:образе́ц (ru) m ( obrazéc ) ,экземпля́р (ru) m ( ekzɛmpljár ) Scottish Gaelic:sampall m Spanish:espécimen (es) m Swedish:exemplar (sv) n
specimen (plural specimens
specimen sample Fromspeciō ( “ observe, watch ” ) +-men ( noun-forming suffix ) .
specimen n genitive speciminis third declension
mark ,token ,sign ,indication , specimenexample ,pattern ,model ornament ,honor Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
“specimen Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 )A Latin Dictionary “specimen Charlton T. Lewis (1891 )An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers specimen inGaffiot, Félix (1934 )Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette. Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894 )Latin Phrase-Book [1] Macmillan and Co. an ideal:species optima eximia, specimen species, forma specimen inRamminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed))Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700 [2] Borrowed fromFrench spécimen
specimen n plural specimene
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