servente

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese servente (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin serviens, servientem. Doublet of sarxento, from French.

Cognate with Portuguese servente, Spanish sirviente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seɾˈβente̝/

Noun

servente m (plural serventes, feminine serventa, feminine plural serventas)

1. servant
   • 1421, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 255:

     eu Alonso da Cana, servente do Conçello da çidade de Santiago, outorgo e conosco que reçebi de vos Nuno Vinagre e Juan Raposo, procuradores do conçello da çidade de Santiago quatroçentos maravedis, branqua en tres dineiros, de meu selario do anno pasado de mill e quatroçentos e viinte annos

     I, Alonso da Cana, servant of the Council of the city of Santiago, grant and know that I received from you, Nuno Vinagre and Xoán Raposo, agents of the Council of the city of Santiago, four hundred maravedis, each white coin three denarii, of my salary of the last year of a thousand and four hundred and twenty

   Synonym: servidor

Derived terms

• serventía

Related terms

• servidor
• servir
• servizo
• servo

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “servente”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛnte

Etymology 1

From the present participle of servire; possibly corresponds to Latin serviens, servientem. Cf. also serviente.

Noun

servente m (plural serventi)

1. server

Verb

servente

1. present participle of servire

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin serviēns, serviēntem.

Noun

1. assistant (one who is hired to perform regular, less important duties)

Synonyms

• assistente

Related terms

• servir
• servo