"spuria" meaning in English

See spuria in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈspjʊəɹɪə/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-spuria.wav
enPR: spyo͝oəʹrĭə [Received-Pronunciation] Rhymes: -ʊəɹɪə Etymology: From the Latin spuria, the nominative neuter plural form of spurius, whence spurious; compare trivia. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|spuria}} Latin spuria Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} spuria pl (plural only)
  1. Spurious things; especially, a counterfeit or forged written work or one of doubtful attribution. Tags: plural, plural-only Related terms: ala spuria
    Sense id: en-spuria-en-noun-5531nKnT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English pluralia tantum, English undefined derivations, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 51 46 1 2 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 47 1 2 1
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "spuria"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin spuria",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the Latin spuria, the nominative neuter plural form of spurius, whence spurious; compare trivia.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "spuria pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English pluralia tantum",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "51 46 1 2 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 47 1 2 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              79,
              85
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1790, The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume 67, page 292:",
          "text": "The laſt will and teſtament of Grunnius, a Roman pig, publiſhed among Gruter’s Spuria, betrays not more evident marks of impoſition.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Spurious things; especially, a counterfeit or forged written work or one of doubtful attribution."
      ],
      "id": "en-spuria-en-noun-5531nKnT",
      "links": [
        [
          "Spurious",
          "spurious"
        ],
        [
          "counterfeit",
          "counterfeit"
        ],
        [
          "forged",
          "forged"
        ],
        [
          "attribution",
          "attribution"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "ala spuria"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "spyo͝oəʹrĭə",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspjʊəɹɪə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-spuria.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-spuria.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-spuria.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-spuria.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-spuria.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʊəɹɪə"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spuria"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "spuria"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin spuria",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the Latin spuria, the nominative neuter plural form of spurius, whence spurious; compare trivia.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "spuria pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ala spuria"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English pluralia tantum",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English undefined derivations",
        "Pages with 3 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/ʊəɹɪə",
        "Rhymes:English/ʊəɹɪə/2 syllables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              79,
              85
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1790, The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume 67, page 292:",
          "text": "The laſt will and teſtament of Grunnius, a Roman pig, publiſhed among Gruter’s Spuria, betrays not more evident marks of impoſition.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Spurious things; especially, a counterfeit or forged written work or one of doubtful attribution."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Spurious",
          "spurious"
        ],
        [
          "counterfeit",
          "counterfeit"
        ],
        [
          "forged",
          "forged"
        ],
        [
          "attribution",
          "attribution"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "spyo͝oəʹrĭə",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspjʊəɹɪə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-spuria.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-spuria.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-spuria.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-spuria.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-spuria.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʊəɹɪə"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spuria"
}

Download raw JSONL data for spuria meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "called_from": "form_description/20250107",
  "msg": "Form tags without form: desc='plural plural-only', tagsets=[('plural', 'plural-only')]",
  "path": [
    "spuria"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "spuria",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (05c257f and 9d9a410). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.