serva
Catalan
Etymology 1
From Latin sorbus, with unexplained mutation of the vowel.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /ˈsəɾ.və/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ˈsɛr.bə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈseɾ.va/
Noun
serva f (plural serves)
- serviceberry (fruit)
Derived terms
- server
Etymology 2
From Latin serva.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /ˈseɾ.və/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ˈser.bə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈseɾ.va/
Noun
serva f (plural serves)
- female equivalent of serf
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛr.va/
- Rhymes: -ɛrva
- Hyphenation: sèr‧va
Etymology 1
From Latin serva.
Noun
serva f (plural serve, masculine servo)
- (literary) (female) slave
- Synonym: schiava
- servant, maid
- domestica, cameriera
Derived terms
- servetta
- sottoserva
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
serva f sg
- feminine singular of servo
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
serva
- inflection of servire:
- first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- versa
Latin
Etymology 1
From servus (“slave, servant”) + -a (feminine suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈser.u̯a/, [ˈs̠ɛru̯ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈser.va/, [ˈsɛrvä]
Noun
serva f (genitive servae, masculine servus); first declension
- a female slave
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | serva | servae |
| Genitive | servae | servārum |
| Dative | servae | servīs |
| Accusative | servam | servās |
| Ablative | servā | servīs |
| Vocative | serva | servae |
Etymology 2
Inflected form of servō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈser.u̯aː/, [ˈs̠ɛru̯äː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈser.va/, [ˈsɛrvä]
Verb
servā
- second-person singular present active imperative of servō
References
- “serva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “serva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- serva 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)
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to examine slaves by torture: de servis quaerere (in dominum)
- (ambiguous) to examine slaves by torture: de servis quaerere (in dominum)
Maltese
| Root |
|---|
| s-r-v-j |
| 2 terms |
Etymology
Borrowed from Sicilian sirviri (conjugated servi) and/or Italian servire, both from Latin servire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛr.va/
Verb
serva (imperfect jservi, past participle servit or servut or mservi)
- to serve (arrange and provide food or drink)
- to serve (render service to)
- Synonym: qeda
Conjugation
| Conjugation of serva | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| perfect | m | servejt | servejt | serva | servejna | servejtu | servew | |
| f | serviet | |||||||
| imperfect | m | nservi | tservi | jservi | nservu | tservu | jservu | |
| f | tservi | |||||||
| imperative | servi | servu | ||||||
Derived terms
- sserva
Derived terms
- servizz
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
serva (present tense servar, past tense serva, past participle serva, passive infinitive servast, present participle servande, imperative serva/serv)
- a-infinitive form of serve
Anagrams
- avser, ervas, revas, sarve, vares, versa
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsɛʁ.vɐ/ [ˈsɛɦ.vɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈsɛɾ.vɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈsɛʁ.vɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsɛɻ.va/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsɛɾ.vɐ/
- (Sulista) IPA(key): /ˈsɛɾ.va/, IPA(key): /ˈsɛɹ.vɐ/, IPA(key): /ˈsɛɻ.vɐ/
- (Nordestino) IPA(key): /ˈsɛʁ.vɐ/
Noun
serva f (plural servas)
- female equivalent of servo
Adjective
serva
- feminine singular of servo
Swedish
Verb
serva (present servar, preterite servade, supine servat, imperative serva)
- (sports) to serve (in tennis or volleyball); to put the ball in motion
- to give service (to a car), to service, to maintain, to lube
Conjugation
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | serva | servas | ||
| Supine | servat | servats | ||
| Imperative | serva | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | serven | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | servar | servade | servas | servades |
| Ind. plural1 | serva | servade | servas | servades |
| Subjunctive2 | serve | servade | serves | servades |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | servande | |||
| Past participle | servad | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
References
- serva in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Anagrams
- avres, avser, varse, vaser