Sorts vs Specie - What's the difference?
sorts | specie |
Type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in specie .
Money, especially in the form of coins made from precious metal, that has an intrinsic value; coinage.
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 805:
* 2006 , (Thomas Pynchon), Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 8:
(proscribed)
As nouns the difference between sorts and specie
is that sorts is plural of lang=en while specie is type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in specie.As a verb sorts
is third-person singular of sort.specie
English
Etymology 1
Originally in the phrase in specie; from (etyl) , ablative singular of species. Compare payment in kind.Noun
(-)- ‘It was not money or specie he thought himself hunting!’
- “Dick” Counterfly had absquatulated swiftly into the night, leaving his son with only a pocketful of specie and the tender admonition, “Got to ‘scram,’ kid — write if you get work.”