serviens

serviens

1. masculine plural of servien

Present active participle of serviō (“serve, be a slave to”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛr.wi.ẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛr.vi.ens]

serviēns (genitive servientis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. serving, (as a servant or slave)
2. being devoted to, subject to

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

serviēns m (genitive servientis); third declension

1. a sergeant
2. a servant

Third-declension noun.

• "serviens", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)