servans
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Present active participle of servō.
Participle[edit]
servāns (genitive servantis); third-declension one-termination participle
- maintaining, saving, preserving, keeping
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.36–37:
- cum Iūnō, aeternum servāns sub pectore volnus, haec sēcum
- When Juno, preserving [that] everlasting wound deep in her heart, [said] these [things] to herself: [...].
(That is, Juno feels unremitting anger due to her several grievances against the Trojans. Some translations use the idiom of “nursing” the figurative injury and its injurious emotions.)
- When Juno, preserving [that] everlasting wound deep in her heart, [said] these [things] to herself: [...].
- cum Iūnō, aeternum servāns sub pectore volnus, haec sēcum
Declension[edit]
Third-declension participle.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | servāns | servantēs | servantia | ||
| Genitive | servantis | servantium | |||
| Dative | servantī | servantibus | |||
| Accusative | servantem | servāns | servantēs servantīs |
servantia | |
| Ablative | servante servantī1 |
servantibus | |||
| Vocative | servāns | servantēs | servantia | ||
1When used purely as an adjective.
References[edit]
- “servans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “servans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- servans 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)
- servans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.