servile

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English

Etymology

From Middle English servyle, from Old French servil, servile, from Latin servīlis, from servus (“slave”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

servile (comparative more servile, superlative most servile)

  1. Excessively eager to please; obsequious.
    • 2021, Ed Vulliamy, The Guardian‎:
      British “subjects” (not citizens, note) are just that: gleefully servile to the monarchy’s institutionalised inequality...
  2. Slavish or submissive.
    Synonym: abject
    Antonyms: arrogant, authoritarian
    servile flattery    servile obedience
    1. Of or pertaining to a slave.
  3. (grammar) Not belonging to the original root.
    a servile letter
  4. (grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

servile (plural serviles)

  1. (grammar) An element which forms no part of the original root.
  2. A slave; a menial.

Antonyms

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin servīlis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

servile (plural serviles)

  1. servile, slavish, subservient

Further reading

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology

From Latin servīlis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /serˈvi.le/
  • Rhymes: -ile
  • Hyphenation: ser‧vì‧le

Adjective

servile m or f (plural servili)

  1. servile

Derived terms

Latin

Pronunciation

Adjective

servīle

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of servīlis

See also

Middle English

Adjective

servile

  1. alternative form of servyle

Spanish

Verb

servile

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of servir combined with le
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