speck

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
speck1

▶noun a tiny spot.

■ a small particle.

▶verb mark with small spots.

– derivatives
speckless adjective.

– origin OE specca; cf. speckle.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
speck2

▶noun smoked ham of a type made in NE Italy.

– origin via Ital. from Du. spek, Ger. Speck ‘fat bacon, whale blubber’ (in which sense it was formerly used in English): rel. to OE spec.