servile
(adjective) submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior; “spoke in a servile tone”; “the incurably servile housekeeper”; “servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work”
servile
(adjective) relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants; “Brown’s attempt at servile insurrection”; “the servile wars of Sicily”; “servile work”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
servile (comparative more servile, superlative most servile)
of or pertaining to a slave.
submissive or slavish.
(grammar) Not belonging to the original root.
(grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.
• (submissive or slavish): authoritarian, arrogant
servile (plural serviles)
(grammar) An element which forms no part of the original root.
A slave; a menial.
• radical
• leviers, relives, reviles, veilers
Source: Wiktionary
Serv"ile, a. Etym: [L. servile, fr. servus a servant or slave: cf. F. servile. See Serve.]
1. Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience. She must bend the servile knee. Thomson. Fearing dying pays death servile breath. Shak.
2. Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved. Even fortune rules no more, O servile land! Pope.
3. (Gram.) (a) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter. (b) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.
Serv"ile, n. (Gram.)
Definition: An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 June 2025
(noun) a decrease in the density of something; “a sound wave causes periodic rarefactions in its medium”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
