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Specify

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to state or identify something precisely and in detail
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Stage 1 of 2
species
Latin · ancient
"a kind, a sort"
a kind, a sort, combined with facere (to make)
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Stage 2 of 2
specify
English · 1300s
"to state something precisely and in detail"
settled as the English word for stating something precisely and clearly
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