slave
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Etymology [edit]
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 [edit]
Noun [edit]
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 [edit]
See also [edit]
- chattel
- indentured servant
Slave (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Slave (disambiguation)
Slavery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Slavery
Translations [edit]
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Verb [edit]
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 [edit]
References [edit]
- August 2, 2004, "EE Times: Beware 'zombie' clauses
- Notes:
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “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 [edit]
Danish [edit]
Noun [edit]
slave c (singular definite slaven, plural indefinite slaver)
Synonyms [edit]
- træl c
Derived terms [edit]
- slaveri n
Inflection [edit]
Verb [edit]
slave (imperative slav, infinitive at slave, present tense slaver, past tense slavede, past participle har slavet)
Synonyms [edit]
- trælle v
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
In Middle French Sclave ("Slav"), from Medieval Latin sclavus or Sclavus, from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos)
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
slave (masculine and feminine, plural slaves)
Derived terms [edit]
- panslave
- panslavisme
- Slave
- slavisant
- slaviser
- slavisme
- slaviste
- slavistique
- slavophile
- slavophilie
- slavophilisme
Related terms [edit]
Noun [edit]
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 [edit]
- "slave" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams [edit]
Italian [edit]
Adjective [edit]
slave f
- Plural form of slavo
Noun [edit]
slave f
- Plural form of slavo
Anagrams [edit]
Latvian [edit]
Noun [edit]
slave f, 5th declension
Declension [edit]
| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (nominatīvs) | slave | — |
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | slavi | — |
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | slaves | — |
| dative (datīvs) | slavei | — |
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | slavi | — |
| locative (lokatīvs) | slavē | — |
| vocative (vokatīvs) | slave | — |
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Medieval Latin
- English terms derived from Byzantine Greek
- English nouns
- en:Engineering
- English verbs
- en:Slavery
- Danish nouns
- Danish verbs
- French terms derived from Medieval Latin
- French adjectives
- French nouns
- French uncountable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Italian plurals
- Italian adjective forms
- Latvian nouns
- Latvian feminine nouns
- Latvian dialectal terms
- Latvian alternative forms
- Latvian fifth declension nouns
- Latvian noun forms
- Latvian noun forms (vocative)