Adjective: servo
Hyphenation: sèr‧vo
| Singular m. | servo |
| Singular f. | serva |
| Plural m. | servi |
| Plural f. | serve |
Sample Sentences
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Ahi serva Italia, di dolore ostello,
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nave sanza nocchiere in gran tempesta,
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non donna di provincie, ma bordello! (Ah! servile Italy, grief's hostelry! A ship without a pilot in great tempest! No Lady thou of Provinces, but brothel!) [1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VI”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 76–78; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
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[…] le serve braccia
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Fornien di leve onnipotenti, ond’alto
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Salisser poi piramidi, obelischi (They endowed the servile arms with all-powerful levers, so that pyramids and obelisks could then rise) [1763, Giuseppe Parini, “Il mattino [Morning]”, in Opere dell'abate Giuseppe Parini - Volume primo [Works of abbot Giuseppe Parini - Volume one], Venice: Giacomo Storti, published 1803, page 126:]
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Di mille voci al sonito
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Mista la sua non ha:
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Vergin di servo encomio
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E di codardo oltraggio (With the thousand resounding voices his one does not mix, free from all taint of servile praise and cowardly insult) [1821, Alessandro Manzoni, Il cinque maggio [The Fifth of May], collected in Opere varie di Alessandro Manzoni, Fratelli Rechiedei, published 1881, page 690, lines 17–20:]
Adjectives inflected like servo
periurbano,
rigenerativo,
ionizzato,
surrogato,
monferrino,
coscienzioso,
palesato,
urinoso,
megadiverso,
autovalutativo,
sfatto,
sfitto,
tiburtino,
evacuato,
meschino,
angloamericano,
moltiplicativo,
sessantaseiesimo,
transgiordano,
sereno, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin servus, from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo- (“guardian”), or perhaps of Etruscan origin. See: Latin Adjectives '
servus'.
Translations