serviliter

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.?

Proto-Italic *serwos

Latin servus

Proto-Indo-European *-elis

Proto-Italic *-elis

Latin -ilis

Latin -īlis

Latin servīlis

Proto-Indo-European *-teros?

Latin -ter

Latin servīliter

From servīlis (“slavish", "slave-"”) + -ter.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛrˈwiː.lɪ.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [serˈviː.li.ter]

Adverb

servīliter (comparative servīlius, superlative servīlissimē)

1. like a slave, slavishly, servilely

References

• “serviliter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “serviliter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "serviliter", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “serviliter”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.