subservient

English

Etymology

From Latin subserviens, present active of subservio (“I serve under”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

subservient (comparative more subservient, superlative most subservient)

1. Useful in an inferior capacity.
2. Obsequiously submissive.
   • 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1]:

     Sansa takes her place as ruler of the North, a free and independent land no longer subservient to anywhere else. And Arya does what she’s always done best: Make her own way, literally leaving everything she knows behind to see what’s over the next horizon.

Translations

useful in an inferior capacity

• Bulgarian: съдействащ (bg) (sǎdejstvašt), помощен (bg) (pomošten)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 次要的 (cìyàode), 次要 (zh) (cìyào)

• Czech: podřízený (cs)
• Finnish: alamainen (fi)
• Malayalam: അധീനമായ (adhīnamāya), വിധേയമായ (vidhēyamāya)
• Occitan: asservit, subaltèrn (oc), subordonat

obsequiously submissive

• Bulgarian: раболепен (bg) (rabolepen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 恭顺 (zh) (gōngshùn)

• Czech: servilní
• Finnish: nöyristelevä, alamainen (fi)
• French: servile (fr)
• German: lakaienhaft, servil (de), untertänig (de)
• Irish: spleách
• Occitan: servil
• Portuguese: subserviente (pt)
• Russian: раболепный (ru) (rabolepnyj)
• Spanish: servil (es)

See also

• obedient
• subordinate

Latin

Verb

subservient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of subserviō