different between species vs clan

English

Etymology

From Latin speci?s (“appearance; quality”), from speci? (“see”) + -i?s suffix signifying abstract noun. Doublet of spice

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spi??i?z/, /?spi?si?z/. Some speakers pronounce the singular with -?z, the plural with -i?z.

Noun

species (plural species or (rare, nonstandard) specieses)

1. Type or kind. (Compare race.)
   • 1871, Richard Holt Hutton, Essays, Theological and Literary

     What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.
   1. A group of plants or animals having similar appearance.
   2. (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below genus; a taxon at that rank.
      • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:

        Hence, in determining whether a form should be ranked as a species or a variety, the opinion of naturalists having sound judgment and wide experience seems the only guide to follow.
   3. (chemistry, physics) A particular type of atom, molecule, ion or other particle.
   4. (mineralogy) A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.
2. An image, an appearance, a spectacle.
   1. (obsolete) The image of something cast on a surface, or reflected from a surface, or refracted through a lens or telescope; a reflection.

   2. Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.

      • Wit, […] the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent.

      • the species of the letters illuminated with indigo and violet

   3. A public spectacle or exhibition.

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

3. (Christianity) Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.
4. Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
   • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures

     There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.

5. A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
6. An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; especially, one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Thomas de Quincey to this entry?)

Usage notes

• species is its own plural; specie is a separate word that means coin money.
• (biology, taxonomy): See species name, binomial nomenclature.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• race
• (taxonomy, rank):
  • domain
  • kingdom
  • phylum/division
  • class
  • order
  • family
  • genus
  • superspecies
  • species
    • subspecies, form
    • (botany, horticulture): variety, cultivar

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “species”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Noun

species

1. plural of specie

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

species

1. Plural form of specie

Synonyms

• speciën

Latin

Etymology

From speci? (“see”) + -i?s suffix signifying abstract noun.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?spe.ki.e?s/, [?s?p?kie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?spe.t??i.es/, [?sp??t??i?s]

Noun

speci?s f (genitive speci??); fifth declension

1. a seeing, view, look
2. a spectacle, sight
3. external appearance, looks; general outline or shape
4. semblance, pretence, pretext, outward show
5. show, display
6. (figuratively) vision, dream, apparition
7. (figuratively) honor, reputation
8. (figuratively) a kind, quality, type
9. (law, later) a special case

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Derived terms

• speci?tim

Descendants

References

• species in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• species in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• species in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

clan (plural clans)

1. (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.

   Coordinate term: lineage

   Hyponym: descent group

2. A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
3. Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
   • 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:

     As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.

4. (video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
5. A badger colony.

Derived terms

• clannish
• matriclan
• patriclan

Descendants

• ? Catalan: clan
• ? Dutch: clan
• ? French: clan
• ? Galician: clan
• ? German: Clan
• ? Italian: clan
• ? Portuguese: clan, clã
• ? Spanish: clan

Translations

Anagrams

• Lanc, NLCA, NaCl

Catalan

Noun

clan m (plural clans)

1. clan

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann (“progeny, race”), from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). As such, it is a doublet of plant (“plant, flora”).

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /kl?n/
• Hyphenation: clan
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

clan m (plural clans, diminutive clannetje n)

1. clan, kin group, esp. in relation to the Scottish Highlands or Scotland in general
2. (gaming) a group of gamers playing on the same team, a clan

Descendants

• Afrikaans: clan
• ? Indonesian: klan

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English clan, Scottish Gaelic clann, ultimately from Latin planta, and therefore a doublet of plante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl??/

Noun

clan m (plural clans)

1. clan

Further reading

• “clan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Noun

clan m (plural clans)

1. clan

Synonyms

• (clan): tribo

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English clan.

Noun

clan m (invariable)

1. clan
2. team
3. gang

Portuguese

Noun

clan m (plural clans)

1. Alternative spelling of clã

Romanian

Etymology

From French clan.

Noun

clan n (plural clanuri)

1. clan

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English clan. Doublet of planta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klan/, [?klãn]

Noun

clan m (plural clanes)

1. clan