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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English servyle, from Old French servil, servile, from Latin servīlis, from servus (slave).

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servile (comparative more servile, superlative most servile)

  1. Excessively eager to please; obsequious.
    • 2021, Ed Vulliamy, The Guardian[1]:
      British “subjects” (not citizens, note) are just that: gleefully servile to the monarchy’s institutionalised inequality...
  2. Slavish or submissive.
    Synonym: abject
    Antonyms: arrogant, authoritarian
    servile flattery    servile obedience
    1. Of or pertaining to a slave.
  3. (grammar) Not belonging to the original root.
    a servile letter
  4. (grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.

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Noun

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servile (plural serviles)

  1. (grammar) An element which forms no part of the original root.
  2. A slave; a menial.

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin servīlis.

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servile (plural serviles)

  1. servile, slavish, subservient
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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin servīlis.

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  • IPA(key): /serˈvi.le/
  • Rhymes: -ile
  • Hyphenation: ser‧vì‧le

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servile (plural servili)

  1. servile

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Latin

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servīle

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of servīlis

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Middle English

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servile

  1. Alternative form of servyle

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Verb

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servile

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of servir combined with le