different between imprisonment vs servitude

English

Alternative forms

• emprisonment (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman emprisonement, from Old French emprisonnement. See imprison +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?p??zn?.m?nt/

Noun

imprisonment (countable and uncountable, plural imprisonments)

1. A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
   • Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets.

   • Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]

Synonyms

• incarceration
• jaildom

Derived terms

• life imprisonment

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle French servitude, from Latin servit?s, from Latin servus (“slave”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s??v?t?u?d/, /-tju?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?v?tud/

Noun

servitude (countable and uncountable, plural servitudes)

1. The state of being a slave; slavery.
   • 1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A Wayfarer in China

     In spite of the importance of this route it remained until a few years ago very insecure. Overhung almost its entire length by the inaccessible fastnesses of Lololand, the passing caravans dared journey only with convoy, and even then were frequently overwhelmed by raiders from the hills, who carried off both trader and goods into the mountains, the former to lifelong servitude.
2. (law) A qualified beneficial interest severed or fragmented from the ownership of an inferior property and attached to a superior property or to some person other than the owner; the most common form is an easement.
3. (dated) Service rendered in the army or navy.
4. (obsolete) Servants collectively.
5. (archaic) The act of serving (food or drink, etc.); service.
   • 1857, Journal of Australasia (volume 2, page 38)

     The usual routine of confections and pastry follows, after which a galore of fruits of all kinds, with a chassè of excellent Mocha, the immediate servitude of which, after good dining, is, I think, universally acknowledged to be a great exhiliration^[sic].

Translations

See also

• servitude on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• serfdom

Anagrams

• divesture

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin servit?d?, from Latin servus.

Noun

servitude f (plural servitudes)

1. servitude, thralldom

Related terms

• serf
• servir

See also

• esclavage

Further reading

• “servitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin servitus, servitutem, probably a borrowing.

Noun

servitude f (plural servitudes)

1. servitude (the state of being a serf or slave)

   Synonym: servidão

Related terms

• servir