SERVITOR

servitor

(noun) someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• overstir

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