serviens
French
Adjective
serviens
- masculine plural of servien
Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of serviō (“serve, be a slave to”)
Participle
serviēns (genitive servientis); third-declension one-termination participle
- serving, (as a servant or slave)
- being devoted to, subject to
Declension
Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | serviēns | servientēs | servientia | ||
Genitive | servientis | servientium | |||
Dative | servientī | servientibus | |||
Accusative | servientem | serviēns | servientēs servientīs | servientia | |
Ablative | serviente servientī1 | servientibus | |||
Vocative | serviēns | servientēs | servientia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
Noun
serviēns m (genitive servientis); third declension
- a sergeant
- a servant
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | serviēns | servientēs |
Genitive | servientis | servientum |
Dative | servientī | servientibus |
Accusative | servientem | servientēs |
Ablative | serviente | servientibus |
Vocative | serviēns | servientēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: servent
- English: sergeant, servant
- Galician: servente
- Italian: serviente, servente
- Occitan: sirvent
- Old French: sergent
- French: sergent, servant
- → Galician: sarxento
- → Portuguese: sargente, sargento
- Portuguese: servente, serviente
- Spanish: sirviente
References
- serviens 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)