servitude

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English

Etymology

From Middle French servitude, from Latin servitūs, from Latin servus (“slave”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

servitude (countable and uncountable, plural servitudes)

  1. The state of being a slave; slavery.
    • 1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A Wayfarer in China
      In spite of the importance of this route it remained until a few years ago very insecure. Overhung almost its entire length by the inaccessible fastnesses of Lololand, the passing caravans dared journey only with convoy, and even then were frequently overwhelmed by raiders from the hills, who carried off both trader and goods into the mountains, the former to lifelong servitude.
    • 1986, Piotr Buczkowski, Andrzej Klawiter, editors, Theories of Ideology and Ideology of Theories‎[1], Rodopi, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 57:
      The Enlightment worldview, which considered the order of "Nature" as a basis and, at the same time, the subject of explorations of scientific natural sciences, has, at the same time, considered this order as a criterion of the artistically-aesthetic qualities of art. From an "ideological" point of view, it liberated art from its feudal religious and courtly servitude.
  2. (law) A qualified beneficial interest severed or fragmented from the ownership of an inferior property and attached to a superior property or to some person other than the owner; the most common form is an easement.
  3. (dated) Service rendered in the army or navy.
  4. (obsolete) Servants collectively.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin servitūdō, from Latin servus.

Noun

servitude f (plural servitudes)

  1. servitude, thralldom

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Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin servitus, servitutem, probably a borrowing.

Noun

servitude f (plural servitudes)

  1. servitude (the state of being a serf or slave)

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