A specimen stamp
Postcard: "Be careful, Clara, that's a fine specimen!" (eligible man)
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈspɛsɪmɪn/
Hyphenation: spe‧ci‧men
Noun
specimen (plural specimens or ( extremely rare ) specimina )
An individual instance that represents a class ; an example .
early specimens of the art of Picasso
2006 , Bill Neal, Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier :To assure a defendant's acquittal, a lawyer usually needed only to convince the jury that the victim was a pretty sorry specimen of a human being.
( numismatics ) A banknote printed for distribution to central banks to aid in the recognition of banknotes from a country other than their own
( philately ) A postage stamp sent to postmasters and postal administrations so that they are able to identify valid stamps and to avoid forgeries
A sample , especially one used for diagnostic analysis .
( humorous , often preceded with “fine”) An eligible man.
Translations
example
Armenian: օրինակ (hy) ( ōrinak ) , նմուշ (hy) ( nmuš )
Azerbaijani: nümunə (az)
Bulgarian: образец (bg) m ( obrazec )
Catalan: espècimen m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 樣本 / 样本 (zh) ( yàngběn )
Czech: ukázka (cs) f , exemplář (cs) m
Danish: eksemplar n
Dutch: voorbeeld (nl) n
Finnish: esimerkki (fi)
French: spécimen (fr) m , exemple (fr) m
German: Exemplar (de) n , Muster (de) n
Greek: δείγμα (el) n ( deígma )
Hungarian: példány (hu)
Japanese: 見本 (ja) ( みほん, mihon )
Korean: 표본 (ko) ( pyobon )
Latin: specimen n
Polish: przykład (pl) m , okaz (pl) m , osobnik (pl) m ( used for animals )
Portuguese: espécime (pt) m , exemplar (pt) m
Romanian: specimen (ro) , exemplar (ro)
Russian: образе́ц (ru) m ( obrazéc ) , экземпля́р (ru) m ( ekzɛmpljár )
Scottish Gaelic: sampall m
Spanish: espécimen (es) m
Swedish: exemplar (sv) n
Etymology
From speciō ( “ observe, watch ” ) + -men ( noun-forming suffix ) .
References
“ specimen ”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 ) A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ specimen ”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891 ) An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers
specimen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934 ) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894 ) Latin Phrase-Book , London: Macmillan and Co. an ideal: species optima or eximia, specimen , also simply species, forma
specimen in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700 , pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Noun
specimen n (plural specimene )
specimen
Declension
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(un) specimen
specimenul
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(unui) specimen
specimenului
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