servilis

Latin

Etymology

From servus +‎ -īlis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

servīlis (neuter servīle, adverb servīle or servīliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. (relational) slave; slavish
  2. servile

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative servīlis servīle servīlēs servīlia
genitive servīlis servīlium
dative servīlī servīlibus
accusative servīlem servīle servīlēs
servīlīs 		servīlia
ablative servīlī servīlibus
vocative servīlis servīle servīlēs servīlia

Descendants

  • Catalan: servil
  • English: servile
  • French: servile
  • Galician: servil
  • German: servil
  • Italian: servile
  • Piedmontese: servil
  • Portuguese: servil
  • Romanian: servil
  • Spanish: servil, servilla, salvilla
  • Swedish: servil

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[1], 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
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