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serv
servant /ˈserv/
noun#3397 most common
Also: serf, slave (archaic)
Example sentences
Servul aduce apă.
The servant brings water.
Servul lucrează în casa boierului.
The servant works in the boyar's house.
Stăpânul îi vorbește aspru servului său.
The master speaks harshly to his servant.
Servii erau tratați ca niște unelte, nu ca oameni.
The servants were treated like tools, not people.
Fidelitatea servului față de stăpân era neclintită, chiar și în vremuri de restriște.
The servant's loyalty to his master was unwavering, even in hard times.
În romanele lui Sadoveanu, servul apare adesea ca martor tăcut al destinelor stăpânilor săi.
In Sadoveanu's novels, the servant often appears as a silent witness to his masters' fates.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | serv | servi |
| Genitive | servului | servilor |
| Accusative | serv | servi |
| Vocative | servule | servilor |
Word family
Etymology
Serv comes from Latin servus, meaning slave or bondsman. Etymologists traditionally link servus to the verb servare, to keep or preserve, on the theory that a servus was originally a war captive spared rather than killed. Romanian borrowed the word directly from Latin as part of its inherited vocabulary, keeping the core meaning of an unfree or subordinate worker. The word survives today mainly in literary and historical Romanian rather than daily speech.
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