Specimen

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early 17th century (in the sense ‘pattern, model’): from Latin, from specere ‘to look’.


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From Latin specimen(“mark, sign, example”), from speciō(“observe, watch”).


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specimen (n.)

1610s, "pattern, model," from Latin specimen "indication, mark, example, sign, evidence; that by which a thing is known, means of knowing," from specere "to look at" (from PIE root *spek- "to observe"). Meaning "single thing regarded as typical of its kind" first recorded 1650s. Compare species.