servitium
Latin
Etymology
From servus, -itia and -ium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /serˈu̯i.ti.um/, [s̠ɛrˈu̯ɪt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /serˈvit.t͡si.um/, [serˈvit̪ː͡s̪ium]
Noun
servitium n (genitive servitiī or servitī); second declension
- slavery, servitude
- Synonyms: servitūs, servitūdō
- Antonym: lībertās
- slaves (collectively)
- service
- et idem Comes de rege per servitium militare
- And the same Count of the king for military service
- et idem Comes de rege per servitium militare
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | servitium | servitia |
| Genitive | servitiī servitī1 | servitiōrum |
| Dative | servitiō | servitiīs |
| Accusative | servitium | servitia |
| Ablative | servitiō | servitiīs |
| Vocative | servitium | servitia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Albanian: shërbesë
- Catalan: servici
- Galician: servizo
- Italian: servigio, servizio
- Occitan: servici
- → Old French: servise
- → 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
- → Middle English: servise, cervice, serves, serveys, serveyse, service, serviz, servyce, servys, servyse, serwyse
- Piedmontese: servissi
- Portuguese: serviço
- Romanian: serviciu
- Sicilian: sirbizzu (mostly used at plural)
- Spanish: servicio
References
- “servitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “servitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- servitium 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)
- servitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “servitium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly