servilis

Latin

Etymology

From servus +‎ -īlis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛrˈwiː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [serˈviː.lis]

Adjective

servīlis (neuter servīle, adverb servīle or servīliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (relational) slave; slavish
2. servile

   Synonym: vernīlis

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	servīlis	servīle		servīlēs	servīlia
genitive	servīlis			servīlium
dative	servīlī			servīlibus
accusative	servīlem	servīle		servīlīs servīlēs	servīlia
ablative	servīlī			servīlibus
vocative	servīlis	servīle		servīlēs	servīlia

Descendants

• Catalan: servil
• English: servile
• French: servile
• Galician: servil
• German: servil
• Italian: servile
• Piedmontese: servil
• Portuguese: servil
• Romanian: servil
• Spanish: servil, servilla, salvilla
• Swedish: servil

References

• “servilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “servilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "servilis", 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)
• “servilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to shake off the yoke of slavery: iugum servile a cervicibus deicere (Phil. 1. 2. 6)
    
  • to deliver some one from slavery: iugum servile alicui demere