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servus

servus

Czech

Interjection

servus, rarely serbus

  1. (colloquial) hi, hiya
  2. (colloquial) cheerio, bye, so long, ta-ta

Esperanto

Verb

servus

  1. conditional of servi

German

Etymology

The greeting evolved from the commoners’ greeting (said to lords) servus humillimus (Domine spectabilis), meaning your most humble servant, my noble Lord. No subservience is implied in modern use.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛrvus/ ~ IPA(key): /ˈzɛɐvus/

Interjection

servus

  1. hello, hi
  2. goodbye, bye
  3. (as a toast) cheers

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo- (guardian), possibly from *ser- (to bind, put together). Cognate with Avestan [script needed] (haraiti, he heeds, protects).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

servus m (genitive servī); second declension

  1. a servant
  2. a serf
  3. a slave

Declension

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative servus servī
genitive servī servōrum
dative servō servīs
accusative servum servōs
ablative servō servīs
vocative serve servī

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

Adjective

servus m (feminine serva, neuter servum); first/second declension

  1. slavish, servile
  2. (of lands, buildings) subject or liable to servitude

Declension

First/second declension.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
nominative servus serva servum servī servae serva
genitive servī servae servī servōrum servārum servōrum
dative servō servō servīs
accusative servum servam servum servōs servās serva
ablative servō servā servō servīs
vocative serve serva servum servī servae serva

References

References

  • servus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • servus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • SERVUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to act the rôle of a slave, pander: agere servum, lenonem
    • a good, useful slave: frugi (opp. nequam) servus
    • a degraded, servile condition: infima fortuna or condicio servorum
    • (ambiguous) to examine slaves by torture: de servis quaerere (in dominum)
  • servus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • servus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

Romanian

Interjection

servus (informal, Transylvania, Maramureș, Bukovina)

  1. hi, hello
  2. see you (later)

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From German servus, ultimately from Latin servus.

Interjection

sèrvus

  1. (Croatia) hello
  2. (Croatia) good bye

Synonyms


Slovak

Etymology

The greeting evolved by the commoners greeting their lords with the words servus humillimus, Domine spectabilis, meaning your humble servant, my noble Lord. No subservience is implied in its modern use.

Interjection

servus

  1. hello
  2. hi
  3. howdy