servio
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From servus (“slave, servant”) -iō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈser.u̯i.oː/, [ˈs̠ɛru̯ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈser.vi.o/, [ˈsɛrvio]
Verb
[edit]serviō (present infinitive servīre, perfect active servīvī or serviī, supine servītum); fourth conjugation, impersonal in the passive
- to be a slave to; to serve [with dative]
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.103-104:
- “[...] Liceat Phrygiō servīre marītō,
dōtālīsque tuae Tyriōs permittere dextrae.”- “[This arrangement will] permit [Dido] to be enslaved to her Phrygian husband [Aeneas], and — as her dowry — to surrender the Tyrians into your hands.”
(Juno mocks Dido and insults Venus’s son, Aeneas, yet tries to tempt Venus with shared dominion over Carthage.)
- “[This arrangement will] permit [Dido] to be enslaved to her Phrygian husband [Aeneas], and — as her dowry — to surrender the Tyrians into your hands.”
- “[...] Liceat Phrygiō servīre marītō,
- Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Epistula XCII
- Nemo liber est qui corpori servit.
- No one is free who is a slave to his body.
- Nemo liber est qui corpori servit.
- to be devoted to, subject to [with dative]
- to have respect to, regard or care for, consult
- to aim at
Conjugation
[edit]The only passive forms found for this verb are third-person singular.
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Balkan Romance:
- Megleno-Romanian: sirbes, sirbiri
- Old Romanian: șerbi
- → Albanian: shërbej
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “servio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “servio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- servio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to accommodate oneself to circumstances: tempori servire, cedere
- to look after, guard a person's interests, welfare: commodis alicuius servire
- to have regard for one's good name: famae servire, consulere
- to be the slave of one's desires: cupiditatibus servire, pārēre
- to be careful of one's dignity: dignitati suae servire, consulere
- (ambiguous) to examine slaves by torture: de servis quaerere (in dominum)
- to accommodate oneself to circumstances: tempori servire, cedere
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ser- (guard)
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms suffixed with -io (fourth conjugation)
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin verbs
- Latin terms with quotations
- Latin fourth conjugation verbs
- Latin fourth conjugation verbs with perfect in -iv-
- Latin fourth conjugation verbs with perfect in -i-
- Latin verbs with impersonal passive
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook