Spices

Spices (as Middle High German  specerīe from Italian Spezierie , Goods grocery ', of Spezieria , Spice Store' from the Latin species , kind ',' shape ', late Latin and spice,' borrowed - see also English spice , seasoning ') is from the 14th century Common name for spices (then mostly in the plural spices). Also commonly used in delicatessen products, occasionally in spice shops and pharmacies .

Species is also an outdated expression for food in general, in Switzerland also for general goods (and accordingly there, spices for grocery or general stores). The spice dealer was also called Würzkrämer ( spice grocer ).

See also

• Pharmacy # word origin

Web links

Wiktionary: Species  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Spices that. In: Digital dictionary of the German language .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Kluge , Alfred Götze : Etymological dictionary of the German language . 20th edition, ed. by Walther Mitzka , De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1967; Reprint (“21st unchanged edition”) ibid 1975, ISBN 3-11-005709-3 , p. 724.
2. ↑ Hans-Peter Baum : On the southern goods range on the Würzburg market in 1725. In: Ulrich Wagner (Ed.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 445–447.