spesies

spesies

1. plural of spesie

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

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

spesies (dated)

1. (grammar) 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)

• Biological species is laji in Finnish.

• definiittisyys

• definiittisyys, määräisyys
• indefiniittisyys, epämääräisyys

• “spesies”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
• "Definiteness in Finnish", article by Andrew Chesterman

Internationalism, learned borrowing from Latin speciēs.

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

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.

• “spesies” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from English species, from Latin speciēs.

• (Malaysia) IPA^(key): /spe.sis/
• (Indonesia) IPA^(key): /spɛ.si.ɛs/

spesies (Jawi spelling سڤيسيس, plural spesies-spesies, informal 1st possessive spesiesku, 2nd possessive spesiesmu, 3rd possessive spesiesnya)

1. species
   1. (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below genus; a taxon at that rank.

• “spesies” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.