Spice

Etymology 1
From espice: (modern épice:), from  (plural) species:, from  (singular) species:.

Noun

 * 1)  Plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.
 * 2)  Any variety of spice.
 * 3)  Sweets, candy.

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:seasoning

Hypernyms

 * seasoning

Coordinate terms

 * herb

Derived terms

 * allspice
 * five-spice powder
 * herbs and spices
 * spiceberry
 * spicebush
 * spicery
 * spice up
 * spiciness
 * spicy
 * spicy tooth
 * variety is the spice of life

Translations

 * Albanian: erëz
 * Arabic: (tābal, tābil)
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: espezia
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: krydderi
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: spico
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: სანელებელი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: καρύκευμα
 * Hebrew: תבלין
 * Hindi: मसाला
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: bumbu
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,


 * Korean: 향신료
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: garšviela
 * Lithuanian: prieskonis
 * Macedonian: зачин
 * Maltese: ħwawar
 * Mongolian: халуун ногоо
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: ادویه
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: especiaria
 * Romanian: condiment
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: spìosradh
 * Slovene: začimba
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: krydda
 * Thai: (krêuang têt)
 * Turkish: baharat
 * Vietnamese: gia vị
 * Vietnamese: gia vị


 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: krydderi
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: καρύκευμα
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: ,
 * Macedonian: зачин
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese: tempeiro
 * Russian:, специя
 * Scottish Gaelic: spìosradh
 * Slovene: začimba
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili:

Verb

 * 1)  To add spice or spices to.

Derived terms

 * spice up

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: καρυκεύω, νοστιμεύω
 * Italian: speziare


 * Macedonian: зачинува
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: przyprawiać, przyprawić
 * Slovene: začiniti
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili:

Etymology 2
Formed by analogy with mice: as the plural of mouse: by Robert A. Heinlein in Time Enough for Love.

Noun
spice



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