servitor
(noun) someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else
Source: WordNet® 3.1
servitor (plural servitors)
One who performs the duties of a servant.
One who serves in an army; a soldier.
(historical) An undergraduate who performed menial duties in exchange for financial support from his college, particularly at Oxford University.
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Source: Wiktionary
Serv"i*tor, n. Etym: [L., fr. servire to serve: cf. F. serviteur.]
1. One who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts under another; a follower or adherent. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak.
2. (Univ. of Oxford, Eng.)
Definition: An undergraduate, partly supported by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 June 2025
(noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
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.
