spice

Etymology 1
From, from (modern ), an old borrowing from , from. .

Noun

 * 1)  Aromatic or pungent plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.
 * 2)  The quality of being spicy.
 * 3)  Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging.
 * 4)  A synthetic cannabinoid drug.
 * 5)  Sweets, candy.
 * Let's go daan to t'spice shop an see what they've i stock
 * 1)  Species; kind.
 * 2) A characteristic touch or taste; smack; flavour.
 * 3) An aromatic odour.
 * 4)  Erotic or pornographic material, usually written; smut.
 * 1)  Species; kind.
 * 2) A characteristic touch or taste; smack; flavour.
 * 3) An aromatic odour.
 * 4)  Erotic or pornographic material, usually written; smut.

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:seasoning

Translations

 * Albanian: erëz
 * Arabic: ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: توابل, بهار
 * Hijazi Arabic: بَهَار, توابل
 * Moroccan Arabic: عطرية
 * South Levantine Arabic: بَهَار, توابل
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: মচলা
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: espezia
 * Belarusian: спе́цыя, прыпра́ва
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: baharat
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: vürts
 * Faroese: krydd, kryddarí
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Gagauz: baharat
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სანელებელი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: ἄρωμα
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: spíosra
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Karaim: baharat
 * Karakhanid: اُتيَم
 * Kazakh: дәмдеуіш
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: курчутма, даамдагыч
 * Lao:
 * Latin: arōma, condīmentum
 * Latvian: garšviela
 * Lithuanian: prieskonis
 * Livonian: virts
 * Luxembourgish: Gewierz
 * Macedonian: зачин
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: ħwawar
 * Maori: raukikini
 * Mongolian: халуун ногоо
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: wyrt, wyrtġemang
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: haya
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: spìosradh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: зачин
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: korenie
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠝꠡꠟꠣ
 * Tagalog: pampalasa
 * Tajik: дорувор, адвиё
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སྨན་སྣ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: пря́нощі, спе́ція, припра́ва
 * Urdu: مصالحہ
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese: bumbon crakèn
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: зачин
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: spìosradh
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:

Verb

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

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ἀρτύω
 * Italian: speziare
 * Latin: condiō
 * Macedonian: зачинува
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: condimentar, especiar
 * Old English: wyrtian
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovene: začiniti
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:

Etymology 2
Formed by analogy with and  as the plurals of  and. First attested use Christopher Morley in “Morley's Magnum” (1935). Made popular by in  (1973).

Etymology
From, (modern ), an old borrowing from.

Noun

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