servise
Middle English
Alternative forms
- cervice, serves, serveys, serveyse, service, serviz, servyce, servys, servyse, serwyse
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French servise, from Latin servitium; equivalent to serven + -ise.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛrˈviːs(ə)/, /ˈsɛrvis(ə)/
Noun
servise (uncountable)
- Service (performance of required tasks):
- The state of being employed; employment (often as a servant or attendant):
- Service or membership in a retinue or army.
- A certain kind or class of employment.
- The labour or money required by one's feudal lord.
- Loyalty or allegiance:
- Religious devotion or worship.
- Romantic or sexual devotion or aid.
- Feudal homage or allegiance; vassalage.
- A particular function or task:
- Payment for service; wages.
- A religious service or the directions for one.
- The provision of food at the table.
- (law, rare) The delivery of summons.
- Help; that which assists or grants advantage.
- Servitude, bondage, or subjugation.
- (rare) A servant or attendant.
Related terms
- servisable
Descendants
- English: service (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: service
References
- “servī̆s(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
servise
- service (set of dishes or utensils)
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin servitium, from Latin servus.
Noun
servise m (oblique plural servises, nominative singular servises, nominative plural servise)
- service; servitude; vasselage
- church service
Related terms
- servir
Descendants
- → Middle English: servise, cervice, serves, serveys, serveyse, service, serviz, servyce, servys, servyse, serwyse
- English: service (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: service
- French: service
- → German: Service
- → Austrian German: Servis
- → Hungarian: szerviz
- → Middle Irish: seirbís
- Irish: seirbhís
- Scottish Gaelic: seirbheis
- Norman: service