servitus
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈser.u̯i.tuːs/, [ˈs̠ɛru̯ɪt̪uːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈser.vi.tus/, [ˈsɛrvit̪us]
Noun
servitūs f (genitive servitūtis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | servitūs | servitūtēs |
Genitive | servitūtis | servitūtum |
Dative | servitūtī | servitūtibus |
Accusative | servitūtem | servitūtēs |
Ablative | servitūte | servitūtibus |
Vocative | servitūs | servitūtēs |
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References
- “servitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “servitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- servitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- servitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to languish in slavery: servitute premi (Phil. 4. 1. 3)
- to enslave a free people: liberum populum servitute afficere
- to reduce to slavery: aliquem in servitutem redigere
- to lay the yoke of slavery on some one: alicui servitutem iniungere, imponere
- to keep the citizens in servile subjection: civitatem servitute oppressam tenere (Dom. 51. 131)
- to carry off into slavery: aliquem in servitutem abducere, abstrahere
- to submit to the yoke of slavery: iugum servitutis accipere
- to shake off the yoke of slavery: iugum servitutis excutere
- to shake off the yoke of slavery: servitutem exuere (Liv. 34. 7)
- to deliver some one from slavery: ab aliquo servitutem or servitutis iugum depellere
- to languish in slavery: servitute premi (Phil. 4. 1. 3)
- “servitus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “servitus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin