spice

• enPR: spīs, IPA^(key): /spaɪs/

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• Rhymes: -aɪs

From Middle English spice, from Old French espice (modern épice), an old borrowing from Late Latin speciēs (“spice(s), good(s), ware(s)”), from Latin speciēs (“kind, sort”). Doublet of species.

spice (countable and uncountable, plural spices)

1. (countable, uncountable) Aromatic or pungent plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.
2. (figuratively, uncountable) Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging.
3. (uncountable) A synthetic cannabinoid drug.
4. (uncountable, Yorkshire) Sweets, candy.
5. (obsolete) Species; kind.
   • Wyclif Bible, 1 Thessalonians v. 22

     Abstain you from all evil spice.

   • Sir T. Elyot

     Justice, although it be but one entire virtue, yet is described in two kinds of spices. The one is named justice distributive, the other is called commutative.

6. A characteristic touch or taste; smack; flavour.
7. An aromatic odour.

• seasoning

• See also Thesaurus:seasoning

• herb

spice (third-person singular simple present spices, present participle spicing, simple past and past participle spiced)

1. (transitive) To add spice or spices to; season.
2. (transitive) To spice up.

• spice up

• spice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Formed by analogy with lice and mice as the plurals of louse and mouse. First attested use Christopher Morley in “Morley's Magnum” (1935).[1] Made popular by Robert A. Heinlein in Time Enough for Love (1973).

spice

1. (nonce word) plural of spouse

• “spice” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

• SPECI, epics, pices, sepic

spice

1. second-person singular present active imperative of spiciō

• IPA^(key): /ˈspʲit͡sɛ/, [ˈspʲit͡sə]

spice

1. inflection of spicy:
   1. nominative and accusative singular neuter
   2. nominative and accusative plural

spice

1. inflection of spicy:
   1. nominative and accusative singular neuter
   2. nominative and accusative plural

• spece, spis, spyce, spysce, spise, spyse, spiece

From Old French espice, (modern épice), an old borrowing from Late Latin speciēs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspiːs(ə)/

spice (plural spices)

1. spices (powders used to flavour meals or dishes):
   1. Spices as used as scents or to enhance the smell of something.
   2. Spices as used in medicinal preparations; by extension, medicine in general.
   3. Spices as used in alchemical preparations.
2. A variety, sort, or kind of something:
   1. A distinct kind of creature; a species.
   2. A type of disease or affliction.
   3. A type of sinful behaviour or action; an action or behaviour in general.
   4. A part, especially of a discipline or line of study.
3. A seeming or presence; the way something looks from the outside:
   1. (philosophy) The perception of something using any sense or innate ability.
   2. (Christianity) The communion wafer when transubstantiated.
   3. (rare) An appearance or image (either mental or real)
4. A meal (usually sweet) incorporating spices.
5. A plant which spices are made from.
6. (rare) A complimentary appellation.

• spicen
• spicer
• spicerie

• English: spice
• Scots: spice

• “spīce (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-24.
• “spīce (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-24.