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speck
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?k/
- Homophone: spec
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English spekke, from Old English specca (“small spot, stain”). Cognate with Low German spaken (“to spot with wet”).
Noun
speck (plural specks)
- A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.
- A very small thing; a particle; a whit.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:modicum
- a. 1864, Walter Savage Landor, quoted in 1971, Ernest Dilworth, Walter Savage Landor, Twayne Publishers, page 88,
- Onward, and many bright specks bubble up along the blue Aegean; islands, every one of which, if the songs and stories of the pilots are true, is the monument of a greater man than I am.
- (zoology) A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
Translations
Verb
speck (third-person singular simple present specks, present participle specking, simple past and past participle specked)
- (transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle.
- paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1991, Stephen Orgel, Jonathan Goldberg (editors), The Major Works, 2003, paperback, page 534,
- Each flower of slender stalk, whose head though gay / Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, / Hung drooping unsustained,
Etymology 2
From earlier specke, spycke (probably reinforced by Dutch spek, German Speck), from Middle English spik, spyk, spike, spich, from Old English spic (“bacon; lard; fat”), from Proto-Germanic *spikk?, *spik? (“bacon”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Späk, Dutch spek, German Speck, Icelandic spik.
Noun
speck (uncountable)
- Fat; lard; fat meat.
- (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
- The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
- The fat of the hippopotamus.
Translations
Anagrams
- pecks
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Speck, from Middle High German spec, from Old High German spek, from Proto-Germanic *spik? (“bacon”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp?k/
- Hyphenation: spèck
Noun
speck m (invariable)
- speck (type of ham)
- Hypernym: salume
Further reading
- Speck Alto Adige on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
References
- speck in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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molecule
English
Etymology
Summary: from French molécule, from New Latin molecula (“a molecule”), diminutive of Latin moles (“a mass”); see mole + -cule.
French molécule (1674, Pierre Le Gallois, Conversations tirées de l'Académie de M. l'abbé Bourdelot, contenant diverses recherches et observations physiques) cited in Quemada, Bernard (1965), Datations et documents lexicographiques (tome 3).
Medieval Latin molecula (early XVII cent., Pierre Gassendi), cited in Le Grand Robert de la Langue Française (2e édn) tome 6. ?ISBN. pp. 522–23. Diminutive of moles
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?l?kju?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?l?kjul/
- Hyphenation: mol?e?cule
Noun
molecule (plural molecules or moleculae or moleculæ)
- (chemistry) The smallest particle of a specific element or compound that retains the chemical properties of that element or compound; two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds.
- A tiny amount.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:molecule
- (small amount): see also Thesaurus:modicum.
Hyponyms
- macromolecule
Meronyms
- atom
Related terms
- molecular
Translations
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mo?.l??ky.l?/
- Hyphenation: mo?le?cu?le
Noun
molecule n or f or m (plural moleculen or molecules, diminutive moleculetje n)
- Alternative form of molecuul.
Friulian
Noun
molecule f (plural moleculis)
- molecule
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