The story
- Latin · derived fromspeciēs“kind”
- Late Latin · derived fromspecificus“specific, particular”
- Old French · derived fromspecifique
- English todayspecific
From Old French specifique, from Late Latin specificus (“specific, particular”), from Latin speciēs (“kind”) + -ific.
Words from the same roots
Latinspeciēs all →
speciesspicetranspeciate
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.