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servitoare
maid (female servant) /ser.vi.ˈto.a.re/
noun#5085 most common
Also: housemaid, servant girl
Example sentences
Servitoarea curăță casa.
The maid cleans the house.
Ea are o servitoare care vine în fiecare zi.
She has a maid who comes every day.
Familia boierească avea mai multe servitoare.
The noble family had several maids.
Servitoarea i-a servit ceaiul stăpânei cu multă grijă.
The maid served her mistress tea with great care.
În romanele lui Rebreanu, servitoarele sunt adesea personaje tăcute, dar esențiale poveștii.
In Rebreanu's novels, maids are often silent but essential characters in the story.
Condiția servitoarelor din conacele secolului al XIX-lea reflecta ierarhiile sociale rigide ale epocii.
The condition of maids in 19th-century manor houses reflected the rigid social hierarchies of the era.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | servitoare | servitoare |
| Genitive | servitoarei | servitoarelor |
| Accusative | servitoare | servitoare |
| Vocative | servitoareo | servitoarelor |
Word family
a servito serve
servitormale servantserviciuserviceservilservile, obsequious
deservito serve (a route, a purpose), to disservice
Etymology
Servitoare comes from servitor, the older Romanian word for a male servant, with the feminine agentive suffix -oare added to mark a female doer. Servitor itself traces to Latin servitor, one who serves, built on the verb servire, to serve, from servus, slave. Romanian kept this Latin word alive alongside its Slavic and other borrowings, and the -tor/-toare pattern became a productive way to form agent nouns in the language.
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