servilis

Latin

Etymology

From servus +‎ -īlis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /serˈu̯iː.lis/, [s̠ɛrˈu̯iːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /serˈvi.lis/, [serˈviːlis]

Adjective

servīlis (neuter servīle, adverb servīlē or servīliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (relational) slave; slavish
2. servile

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	servīlis	servīle		servīlēs	servīlia
Genitive	servīlis			servīlium
Dative	servīlī			servīlibus
Accusative	servīlem	servīle		servīlēs servīlīs	servīlia
Ablative	servīlī			servīlibus
Vocative	servīlis	servīle		servīlēs	servīlia

Descendants

• Catalan: servil
• English: servile
• French: servile
• Galician: servil
• German: servil
• Italian: servile
• Piedmontese: servil
• Portuguese: servil
• Romanian: servil
• Spanish: servil, servilla, salvilla
• Swedish: servil

References

• “servilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “servilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• servilis 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)
• servilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to shake off the yoke of slavery: iugum servile a cervicibus deicere (Phil. 1. 2. 6)
    
  • to deliver some one from slavery: iugum servile alicui demere