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Latin
Etymology
From servus + -īlis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
servīlis (neuter servīle, adverb servīlē or servīliter); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (relational) slave; slavish
- servile
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Descendants
References
- “servilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “servilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- servilis 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)
- servilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to shake off the yoke of slavery: iugum servile a cervicibus deicere (Phil. 1. 2. 6)
- to deliver some one from slavery: iugum servile alicui demere