English
speciously
From specious + -ly.
Formed from specious + -ly
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- ‘to see, to look, to observe’
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Latin speciēs ‘appearance’
Latin speciōsus ‘good-looking’
Anglo-Norman specious
Middle English speciose
English specious
Today it means
adv In a specious manner; fallaciously and erroneously, but seeming superficially to be correct.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “speciously”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / speciously