different between servo vs serf

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [?s??.v??]
• (US) IPA^(key): [?s?.vo?]
• Rhymes: -??(r)v??

Etymology 1

Clipping of servomotor.

Noun

servo (plural servos)

1. A servomechanism or servomotor.
   • 2003, Roger Williams, How to Improve Triumph TR5, 250 and 6, page 45,

     A Lockheed Type 6 remote servo adds a 1.9 multiplier to the pedal pressures and, at about £140, is rather cheaper than all the Girling single line remote servos I?ve seen advertised.

   • 2004, Myke Predko, 123 Robotics Experiments for the Evil Genius, page 300,

     If you are using Futaba servos with the application, make sure that you change the data values accordingly.

   • 2008, Mark L. Latash, Neurophysiological Basis of Movement, page 95,

     The servo is an autonomic element of a control system: Setting a desired value of an output parameter makes a servo do its job independently of other factors as long as the specified value remains constant.

Derived terms

• servocontrol
• servocontroller
• servosystem

Verb

servo (third-person singular simple present servos, present participle servoing, simple past and past participle servoed)

1. To control by means of a servocontrol

Etymology 2

Clipping of service station +? -o.

Noun

servo (plural servos)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A service station, being a place to buy petrol for cars etc., as well as various convenience items, with or without actual car service facilities.

   Man arrested after allegedly driving car through servo — title of Australian Broadcasting Commission News Radio item, 3 June 2005 [1]

   • 2008, Roz Hopkins, Pumped, page 12,

     Crude oil is purchased in US dollars, so the price of the petrol at your local servo is heavily influenced by the rate of exchange between the greenback and the Aussie dollar.

   • 2011 July 16, Beechboro servo bandit escapes with cash, The West Australian.
   • 2011 July 17, Teen arrested over servo robbery, Illawarra Mercury.

Anagrams

• Vores, overs, roves, verso, vores

Esperanto

Etymology

From servi (“to serve”) +? -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?servo/
• Rhymes: -ervo

Noun

servo (accusative singular servon, plural servoj, accusative plural servojn)

1. service

Derived terms

Finnish

Noun

servo

1. servo

Declension

Anagrams

• verso

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin servus, from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo- (“guardian”), or perhaps of Etruscan origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?r.vo/
• Hyphenation: sèr?vo

Adjective

servo (feminine serva, masculine plural servi, feminine plural serve)

1. (literary) servile (of or pertaining to a slave)

Noun

servo m (plural servi, feminine serva)

1. (literary) slave

   Synonym: schiavo

2. servant

   Synonyms: servitore, domestico

Related terms

• servigio
• servile
• servire
• servitù
• servizio
• servo-

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

servo

1. first-person singular present indicative of servire

Anagrams

• verso, versò

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *serw??, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to watch over, protect”). Possible cognates in Ancient Greek ??? (H?ra), ???? (h?r?s).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ser.u?o?/, [?s??ru?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ser.vo/, [?s?rv?]

Verb

serv? (present infinitive serv?re, perfect active serv?v?, supine serv?tum); first conjugation

1. I maintain, keep
2. I protect, save, keep, guard, watch over
3. (with ex in Classical Latin; with ab in Late Latin) I save, I deliver
4. I preserve, store, keep, reserve
5. (figuratively) I permit, allow

Conjugation

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Related terms

Descendants

See also

• servi?

Noun

serv?

1. dative singular of servus
2. ablative singular of servus

References

• servo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• servo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• servo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?s??vu/
• Hyphenation: ser?vo

Etymology

From Latin servus, from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo- (“guardian”), or perhaps of Etruscan origin.

Noun

servo m (plural servos, feminine serva, feminine plural servas)

1. servant
2. serf

Related terms

• servir
• serviço
• serviçal
• servente

See also

• criado
• escravo

Spanish

Noun

servo m (plural servos)

1. Abbreviation of servomecanismo.
2. Abbreviation of servomotor.

English

Etymology

From Middle English serf, from Old French serf, from Latin servus (“slave, serf, servant”), perhaps of Etruscan origin

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s??f/
• (US) IPA^(key): /s?f/
• Homophone: surf (in accents with the fern-fir-fur merger)
• Rhymes: -??(?)f

Noun

serf (plural serfs)

1. a partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights
2. a similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe
3. (strategy games) a worker unit

   Synonyms: peasant, peon, villager

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• slave

Anagrams

• ESRF, FERS, RFEs, Refs, erfs, f***ers, refs

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin servus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?se?f/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?serf/

Noun

serf m (plural serfs, feminine serva)

1. serf

Related terms

• servitud

Further reading

• “serf” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch serf, from Old French serf, from Latin servus.

Noun

serf m (plural serven, diminutive serfje n)

1. a serf (semifree peasant obliged to remain on the lord's land and to perform extensive chores for him)

   Synonyms: horige, laat, lijfeigene

French

Etymology

From Middle French serf, from Old French serf, from Latin servus (“slave, serf, servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo- (“guardian”), or perhaps of Etruscan origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (predominant) /s??f/, (rarely) /s??/
• Homophones: cerf, sers, sert

Noun

serf m (plural serfs, feminine serve)

1. a serf (semifree peasant obliged to remain on the lord's land and to perform extensive chores for him)

Adjective

serf (feminine singular serve, masculine plural serfs, feminine plural serves)

1. being or like a serf, semifree

Related terms

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• fers

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French cerf.

Noun

serf

1. deer

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French serf.

Noun

serf m (plural serfs)

1. serf (semifree peasant)

Descendants

• French: serf

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin servus.

Noun

serf m (oblique plural sers, nominative singular sers, nominative plural serf)

1. serf (semifree peasant)

Descendants

• Middle French: serf
  • French: serf
• ? English: serf

Etymology 2

See servir

Verb

serf

1. first-person singular present indicative of servir

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French cerf.

Noun

serf

1. deer

References

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français