From en.wiktionary.org:
[Speck]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], from [en], from the same ultimate source as [en].[1] Cognate with
[nds].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A tiny spot or particle , especially of dirt .
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-07-20 | volume=408 | issue=8845 | magazine=w:The Economist
|title=Out of the gloom (see
http://www.economist.com/news/http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21582043-villagers-enjoy-sunlight-after-dark-out-gloom)
|passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other
heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For
all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long
overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in
July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for SPECKS of
light in the villages.}}
1. * [1864] , [Walter Savage Landor] , quoted in 1971, Ernest Dilworth, _Walter Savage Landor_ , Twayne Publishers, page 88 (see http://books.google.com.au/books?id=kcINAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Many+bright+specks+bubble+up+along+the+blue+Aegean.+%22&dq=%22Many+bright+specks+bubble+up+along+the+blue+Aegean.+%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dikbUsy0B8mqkwWGzYCQCA&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ) ,
2. *: Onward, and many bright SPECKS bubble up along the blue Aegean; islands, every one of which, if the songs and stories of the pilots are true, is the monument of a greater man than I am.
3. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1994 |author=w:Carl Sagan |isbn=0-679-43841-6 |title=Pale Blue Dot
|passage=Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we
have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of
pale light. Our planet is a lonely SPECK in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come
from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.}}
1. A very small amount; a particle ; a whit .
2. A small etheostomoid fish , [Etheostoma stigmaeum] , common in the eastern United States .
***** Translations
[tiny spot]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: vlek _de_ , [nl]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] (pilinka), [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[small thing]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Irish: [ga]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To mark with specks; to speckle .
2. * [passage=Each flower of slender stalk, whose head though gay / Carnation, purple, azure, or SPECKED with gold, / Hung drooping unsustained, [...]]
3. * [pages=30–31]
**** References
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*** Etymology 2
From earlier [en], [en] (probably reinforced by Dutch [nl], German [de]), from
[en], [enm], [enm], [enm], from [en], from [en], from [en].
Cognate with [stq], [nl], [de], [is].
**** Noun
[-]
1. Fat ; lard ; fat meat .
2. [en] A juniper -flavoured ham originally from Tyrol .
3. The blubber of whale s or other marine mammal s.
4. The fat of the hippopotamus .
***** Translations
[fat, lard]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[juniper-flavoured ham]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Italian: [it]
- Latin: [la]
[trans-bottom]
[blubber of whales]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[fat of hippopotamus]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Italian
*** Etymology
[it] [it], from [it], from [it], from [it].
*** Pronunciation
[spèck]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] [type of ham]
*** Further reading
- [Speck Alto Adige]
- [R:it:Trec]
[it]