servitus
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈser.wi.tuːs/, [ˈsɛr.wɪ.tuːs]
Noun
servitūs f (genitive servitūtis); third declension
- slavery, servitude
- 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Exodus.20.2:
- Ego sum Dominus Deus tuus, qui eduxi te de terra Aegypti, de domo servitutis.
- I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Ego sum Dominus Deus tuus, qui eduxi te de terra Aegypti, de domo servitutis.
Declension
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | servitūs | servitūtēs |
| Genitive | servitūtis | servitūtum |
| Dative | servitūtī | servitūtibus |
| Accusative | servitūtem | servitūtēs |
| Ablative | servitūte | servitūtibus |
| Vocative | servitūs | servitūtēs |
Synonyms
- servitūdō
Derived terms
References
- servitus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- servitus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- servitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- servitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to languish in slavery: servitute premi (Phil. 4. 1. 3)
- to enslave a free people: liberum populum servitute afficere
- to reduce to slavery: aliquem in servitutem redigere
- to lay the yoke of slavery on some one: alicui servitutem iniungere, imponere
- to keep the citizens in servile subjection: civitatem servitute oppressam tenere (Dom. 51. 131)
- to carry off into slavery: aliquem in servitutem abducere, abstrahere
- to submit to the yoke of slavery: iugum servitutis accipere
- to shake off the yoke of slavery: iugum servitutis excutere
- to shake off the yoke of slavery: servitutem exuere (Liv. 34. 7)
- to deliver some one from slavery: ab aliquo servitutem or servitutis iugum depellere
- to languish in slavery: servitute premi (Phil. 4. 1. 3)
- servitus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- servitus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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