spice
noun
[ spʌɪs ]
• an aromatic or pungent vegetable substance used to flavour food, e.g. cloves, pepper, or cumin.
• "the cake is packed with spices"
• a russet or ginger colour.
• sweets; confectionery.
• a type of synthetic cannabis.
• "he was smoking spice to cope with his anxiety"
spice
verb
• flavour with spice.
• "I've spiced the stew with cloves, pepper, and fennel seed"
Origin:
Middle English: shortening of Old French espice, from Latin species ‘sort, kind’, in late Latin‘wares’.
