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Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of servō.
Participle
servāns (genitive servantis); third-declension one-termination participle
- maintaining, saving, preserving, keeping
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.36–37:
- cum Iūnō, aeternum servāns sub pectore volnus, haec sēcum
- When Juno, preserving everlasting wound deep in her heart, these to herself: .
(That is, Juno feels unremitting anger due to her several grievances against the Trojans. Some translations use the idiom of “nursing” the figurative injury and its injurious emotions.)
Declension
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.
References
- “servans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “servans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- servans in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- servans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.