slave

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Variant spellings[1]
α-forms ([skl]-initial):
β-forms ([sl]-initial):
  • (16 th-century):
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[edit] Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French sclave, from Mediaeval Latin sclavus (“‘slave’”) < Byzantine Greek σκλάβος < Old Slavonic словѣнинъ, словѣне (Slav). Slavs were often enslaved during the early Middle Ages, hence the semantic correspondence. }

Concerning toponyms of the type "slave", they are very often ascribed to a presence of Slavs but sometimes this can be a para-etymology. Some linguists, for example italian Alberto Manco, connect them to a designation of the territory relevant to a linguistic systemic stage which is prior to both the result slave[2].

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Singular
slave

Plural
slaves
slave (plural slaves)
  1. A person who is the property of another person and whose labor and also whose life often is subject to the owner's volition.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. (engineering) A device that is controlled by another device.
  5. (engineering) An information worker who has signed a non-compete clause in return for employment.

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terms derived from slave

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person owned by another
person forced to work for another
person who forced to perform sexual acts
engineering: device that is controlled by another device
engineering: information worker
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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to slave

Third person singular
slaves

Simple past
slaved

Past participle
slaved

Present participle
slaving
to slave (third-person singular simple present slaves, present participle slaving, simple past and past participle slaved)
  1. (intransitive) To work hard.
    I was slaving all day over a hot stove.

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to work hard

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  • Notes:
  1. ^ “slave, n.1 (and a.)” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
  2. ^ Alberto Manco, On the toponym Schiava ‘slave’, Indogermanische Forschungen 113/2008.

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slave c. (singular definite slaven, plural indefinite slaver)

  1. slave

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    Inflection of “slave”
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative slave slaven slaver slaverne
genitive slaves slavens slavers slavernes

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slave (imperative slav, infinitive at slave, present tense slaver, past tense slavede, past participle har slavet)

  1. slave

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slave m (usually uncountable)

  1. Slavic language

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slave (epicene, plural slaves)

  1. Slav, Slavic

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slave f.

  1. Plural form of slavo.

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slave f.

  1. Plural form of slavo.
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