different between species vs status

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

From Latin status. Doublet of state and estate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ste?t.?s/
• (US, Canada, General Australian) enPR: st?t?s, IPA^(key): /?stæt.?s/
• Rhymes: -e?t?s, -æt?s

Noun

status (countable and uncountable, plural statuses or status)

1. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.

2. Prestige or high standing.
3. A situation or state of affairs.
4. (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
   1. (Canada, almost always used to modify another noun) The state (of a Canadian Indian) of being registered under the Indian Act.

      He is a status Indian.

5. (social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.

6. (medicine) Short for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.

Usage notes

• Rarely, stat?s (following Latin) is found as the plural form.

Derived terms

• status quo
• status symbol

Translations

Further reading

• "status" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 299.

Anagrams

• suttas

Catalan

Noun

status m (plural status)

1. Alternative spelling of estatus

Chinese

Etymology

From English status.

Noun

status

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) Relationship status, usually in the form A_ or O_.

See also

• ?status
• A0
• O1

Czech

Etymology

From Latin st?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /status/

Noun

status m, inanimate

1. status

Declension

Derived terms

• status quo

Related terms

Further reading

• status in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• status in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Learned borrowing from Latin status.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sta?.t?s/
• Hyphenation: sta?tus

Noun

status m (plural statussen, diminutive statusje n)

1. status (condition)
2. status (legal position)
3. status (station, social standing)
4. medical file

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: status

Esperanto

Verb

status

1. conditional of stati

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin status.

Noun

status

1. status (a person's position or standing; high standing)

Declension

Anagrams

• tassut

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch status, from Latin status.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?st?a.t??s]
• Hyphenation: sta?tus

Noun

status (plural status-status, first-person possessive statusku, second-person possessive statusmu, third-person possessive statusnya)

1. status:
   1. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
   2. A situation or state of affairs.
   3. A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.
2. (healthcare) A medical file, medical record.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “status” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin status.

Noun

status m (invariable)

1. status (position in society)

Further reading

• status in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sta.tus/, [?s?t?ät??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sta.tus/, [?st???t?us]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of sist? (“I cause to stand, set, place”).

Participle

status (feminine stata, neuter statum, adverb statim); first/second-declension participle

1. fixed, set, having been set
2. regular

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

Etymology 2

Noun

status m (genitive stat?s); fourth declension

1. state, status, condition
2. position, place
3. rank, status
4. (Medieval Latin) state (a political division retaining a notable degree of autonomy)

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Derived terms

• statu?

References

• status in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• status in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• status 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.

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta?tus/

Adjective

statùs m (feminine statì) stress pattern 4

1. steep, precipitous

   status kalnas - a steep mountain

Declension

Related terms

(Adjectives)

• sta?ias

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin status.

Noun

status m (definite singular statusen, indefinite plural statuser, definite plural statusene)

1. status

Derived terms

• bystatus
• statussymbol

References

• “status” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin status.

Noun

status m (definite singular statusen, indefinite plural statusar, definite plural statusane)

1. status

Derived terms

• bystatus
• statussymbol

References

• “status” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin status. Doublet of estado.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /is.?ta.tus/, /?sta.tus/

Noun

status m (plural status)

1. (sociology) status; standing (a person’s importance relative to others)
2. status; state (a condition at some point in time)

   Synonym: estado

3. status; prestige

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:status.

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin status.

Noun

status m

1. status

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) stadi

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??tus/
• Hyphenation: sta?tus

Noun

státus m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. status, rank

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?tatus/, [es?t?a.t?us]

Noun

status m (plural status)

1. Alternative spelling of estatus

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

status c

1. status, social standing, rank, situation

Declension

Related terms

• statusjakt
• statussymbol