serventía

Galician

Etymology

From servente (“servant”) +‎ -ía.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [seɾβenˈtiɐ]

Noun

serventía f (plural serventías)

1. (law) right to access to or from one's own property through other's properties; a Galician customary law derived from the Germanic freedom to roam

   Synonym: servidume

2. (law, historical) service ought to a manor house or monastery either because of a contract or because of dependency
   • 1421, Manuel Lucas Álvarez, editor, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro, page 163:

     os ditos reos quebrantaron as condiçõẽs do dito foro e foran contra o dito moesteiro e priores del, por ende que avian perdido o dito couto e herdades; e non se escusauan da dita vasalajẽẽ e seruentia por dizer que eran fidalgos, pois que se obligaron a elo

     said defendants broke the condition of said contract and acted against said monastery and priors, and so they had lost said fief and properties; and they were not exempt of said vassalage and ought services saying that they were noblemen, because previously they had obliged themselves to it

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “seruentia”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “serventía” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “serventía” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “serventía” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.