servitor

From Middle English servitour, borrowed from Latin servītor, from servīre, present active infinitive of serviō (“I serve”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɜɹ.vɪ.təɹ/, /ˈsɜɹ.vɪ.tɔɹ/
• AHD: /sûr'vĭ-tôr'/

servitor (plural servitors)

1. One who performs the duties of a servant.
   • 1885, Percival Lowell, “On Hats”, in Chosön: The Land of the Morning Calm: A Sketch of Korea, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Company, OCLC 57495027, page 346:

     Several days passed by, and to all appearance we had quite forgotten our poor old servitor, – so heartless in remembrance is weak humanity to its nearest and dearest, – when, in course of time, it got to be New Year's eve, and we were sitting in our study, awaiting the cook's preparations for dinner, when suddenly we heard a noise as of much tramping.

   • 1927, The Saturday Evening Post (volume 200, page 150)

     He heard Rogers' voice raised in the reception room; he stepped to the doorway and saw his servitor arguing with an elderly and trampish man who had got in somehow.

2. One who serves in an army; a soldier.
3. (historical) An undergraduate who performed menial duties in exchange for financial support from his college, particularly at Oxford University.

• 1884, W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida

  "You'll find no sizars here, or servitors/or other cruel distinctions meant to draw/a line 'twixt rich and poor"

• 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 22

  The servitors waxed silent, each lost in introspection, until the rattle of the Valmouth cab announced the expected guest.

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Borrowed from French serviteur, Italian servitore, Latin servītor, equivalent to servi +‎ -tor.

servitor m (plural servitori, feminine equivalent servitoare)

1. servant, attendant, domestic, retainer, manservant

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