different between attendant vs famulus

English

Alternative forms

• attendaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English attendant, attendaunt, from Old French attendant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t?nd?nt/

Noun

attendant (plural attendants)

1. One who attends; one who works with or watches over something.

2. A servant or valet.
3. (chiefly archaic) A visitor or caller.
4. That which accompanies or follows.
5. (law) One who owes a duty or service to another.

Translations

Adjective

attendant (comparative more attendant, superlative most attendant)

1. Going with; associated; concomitant.
2. (law) Depending on, or owing duty or service to.

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Translations

See also

• part and parcel

French

Pronunciation

Verb

attendant

1. present participle of attendre

Derived terms

• en attendant
• en attendant que

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /at?ten.dant/, [ät??t??n?d?än?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /at?ten.dant/, [?t??t??n?d??n?t?]

Verb

attendant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of attend?

English

Etymology

From Latin famulus (“servant”).

Noun

famulus (plural famuli)

1. A close attendant or assistant, especially of a magician or occult scholar.

Related terms

• familiar (noun)

Latin

Etymology

For Proto-Italic *famelos (“slave”) (with Oscan ???????????????????? (famel, “slave”)), ultimatley from *d?eh?- (“to do, put, place”). Probably as a backformation from the predecessor of familia (see it for details).

Alternative forms

• famul

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fa.mu.lus/, [?fäm????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fa.mu.lus/, [?f??mulus]

Noun

famulus m (genitive famul?, feminine famula); second declension

1. a servant, slave

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Adjective

famulus (feminine famula, neuter famulum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (figuratively) serving, servile

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

• famulanter
• famult?s
• famulitium
• famulor

Related terms

• familia
• famili?ris
• famili?rit?s
• famili?ricus

Descendants

• ? Albanian: famull
• ? English: famulus
• ? German: Famulus
• ? Italian: famulo
• ? Portuguese: fâmulo
• ? Spanish: fámulo

References

• (noun) famulus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• (adjective) famulus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• famulus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• famulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette