specie
pronunciation
How to pronounce specie in British English:
UK ['spi:ʃi:]
How to pronounce specie in American English:
US ['spiʃɪ]
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- Noun:
- coins collectively
Word Origin
- specie (n.)
- "coin, money in the form of coins, metallic money as a medium of exchange" (as opposed to paper money or bullion), 1670s, from phrase in specie "in the real or actual form" (1550s), from Latin in specie "in kind" (in Medieval Latin, "in coin"), from ablative of species "kind, form, sort" (see species).
Example
- 1. We are a generation of a protected specie .
- 2. We are a specie born to assert our values .
- 3. It was state intervention , not the private market , that made metal specie work as money .
- 4. You are really an endangered specie , how can that be ?
- 5. During a generalised panic the banking system did not have enough specie or banknotes to meet all the redemption requests .