spice
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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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)
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spice (third-person singular simple present spices, present participle spicing, simple past and past participle spiced)
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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).
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