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
9 March 2025
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