slave
English
Alternative forms
obsolete alternative forms[1]
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Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French sclave, from Medieval Latin sclāvus (“slave”), from Sclāvus (“Slav”), because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages.[2][3][4][5][1] Compare Byzantine Greek σκλάβος.
Pronunciation
Noun
slave (plural slaves)
- A person who is the property of another person and whose labor and also whose life often is subject to the owner's volition.
- A person who is legally obliged by prior contract (oral or written) to work for another, with contractually limited rights to bargain; an indentured servant.
- A person who is forced against his/her will to perform, for another person or other persons, sexual acts or other personal services on a regular or continuing basis.
- (engineering) A device that is controlled by another device.
Derived terms
terms derived from slave
See also
- chattel
- indentured servant
Slave (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Slave (disambiguation)- Slavery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Slavery
Translations
person owned by another
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person forced to work for another
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person who is forced to perform sexual acts
engineering: device that is controlled by another device
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Verb
slave (third-person singular simple present slaves, present participle slaving, simple past and past participle slaved)
- (intransitive) To work hard.
- I was slaving all day over a hot stove.
- (transitive) To enslave.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Marston to this entry?)
Translations
to work hard
References
- August 2, 2004, "EE Times: Beware 'zombie' clauses
- Notes:
- ↑ 1.01.1 “slave, n.1 (and a.)” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989
- ^ “slave” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
- ^ “slave” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.
- ^ “slave” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
- ^ Concise Oxford English Dictionary (2008), "slave"
Anagrams
Danish
Noun
slave c (singular definite slaven, plural indefinite slaver)
Synonyms
- træl c
Derived terms
- slaveri n
Inflection
Inflection of slave
Verb
slave (imperative slav, infinitive at slave, present tense slaver, past tense slavede, past participle har slavet)
Synonyms
- trælle v
French
Etymology
In Middle French Sclave ("Slav"), from Medieval Latin sclavus or Sclavus, from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos)
Pronunciation
Adjective
slave (masculine and feminine, plural slaves)
Derived terms
- panslave
- panslavisme
- Slave
- slavisant
- slaviser
- slavisme
- slaviste
- slavistique
- slavophile
- slavophilie
- slavophilisme
Related terms
Noun
slave m (usually uncountable)
- Slavic language
- Avant le IXe siècle, on présume que les Slaves partageaient tous une langue à peu près identique appelée le slave commun, mais aucun écrit avant 860 ne peut le prouver.
References
- "slave" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
Italian
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Noun
slave f, 5th declension
Declension
declension of slave
| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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| nominative (nominatīvs) | slave | — |
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | slavi | — |
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | slaves | — |
| dative (datīvs) | slavei | — |
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | slavi | — |
| locative (lokatīvs) | slavē | — |
| vocative (vokatīvs) | slave | — |
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