servans

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of servō.

Participle

servāns (genitive servantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. maintaining, saving, preserving, keeping
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.36–37:

     cum Iūnō, aeternum servāns sub pectore volnus, haec sēcum

     When Juno, preserving [that] everlasting wound deep in her heart, [said] these [things] to herself: [...].
     (That is, Juno feels unremitting anger due to her several grievances against the Trojans. Some translations use the idiom of “nursing” the figurative injury and its injurious emotions.)

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	servāns			servantēs	servantia
genitive	servantis			servantium
dative	servantī			servantibus
accusative	servantem	servāns		servantēs servantīs	servantia
ablative	servante servantī1			servantibus
vocative	servāns			servantēs	servantia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

References

• “servans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “servans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "servans", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “servans”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.