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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Clipping of servomotor.

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Noun

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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.
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Verb

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

  1. To control by means of servocontrol

Etymology 2

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Clipping of service station +‎ -o.

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Noun

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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.

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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From servi (to serve) +‎ -o.

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Noun

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

  1. service

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Finnish

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Etymology

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From English servo.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈserʋo/, [ˈs̠e̞rʋo̞]
  • Rhymes: -erʋo
  • Hyphenation(key): ser‧vo

Noun

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servo

  1. servo

Declension

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Inflection of servo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative servo servot
genitive servon servojen
partitive servoa servoja
illative servoon servoihin
singular plural
nominative servo servot
accusative nom. servo servot
gen. servon
genitive servon servojen
partitive servoa servoja
inessive servossa servoissa
elative servosta servoista
illative servoon servoihin
adessive servolla servoilla
ablative servolta servoilta
allative servolle servoille
essive servona servoina
translative servoksi servoiksi
abessive servotta servoitta
instructive servoin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of servo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative servoni servoni
accusative nom. servoni servoni
gen. servoni
genitive servoni servojeni
partitive servoani servojani
inessive servossani servoissani
elative servostani servoistani
illative servooni servoihini
adessive servollani servoillani
ablative servoltani servoiltani
allative servolleni servoilleni
essive servonani servoinani
translative servokseni servoikseni
abessive servottani servoittani
instructive
comitative servoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative servosi servosi
accusative nom. servosi servosi
gen. servosi
genitive servosi servojesi
partitive servoasi servojasi
inessive servossasi servoissasi
elative servostasi servoistasi
illative servoosi servoihisi
adessive servollasi servoillasi
ablative servoltasi servoiltasi
allative servollesi servoillesi
essive servonasi servoinasi
translative servoksesi servoiksesi
abessive servottasi servoittasi
instructive
comitative servoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative servomme servomme
accusative nom. servomme servomme
gen. servomme
genitive servomme servojemme
partitive servoamme servojamme
inessive servossamme servoissamme
elative servostamme servoistamme
illative servoomme servoihimme
adessive servollamme servoillamme
ablative servoltamme servoiltamme
allative servollemme servoillemme
essive servonamme servoinamme
translative servoksemme servoiksemme
abessive servottamme servoittamme
instructive
comitative servoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative servonne servonne
accusative nom. servonne servonne
gen. servonne
genitive servonne servojenne
partitive servoanne servojanne
inessive servossanne servoissanne
elative servostanne servoistanne
illative servoonne servoihinne
adessive servollanne servoillanne
ablative servoltanne servoiltanne
allative servollenne servoillenne
essive servonanne servoinanne
translative servoksenne servoiksenne
abessive servottanne servoittanne
instructive
comitative servoinenne

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compounds

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese servo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin servus.

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Noun

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

  1. serf
    Antonyms: amo, señor
  2. servant

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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

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Adjective

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

  1. (literary) servile (of or pertaining to a slave)
    • 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VI”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎[2], lines 76–78; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[3], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Ahi serva Italia, di dolore ostello,
      nave sanza nocchiere in gran tempesta,
      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!
    • 1763, Giuseppe Parini, “Il mattino [Morning]”, in Opere dell'abate Giuseppe Parini - Volume primo [Works of abbot Giuseppe Parini - Volume one]‎[4], Venice: Giacomo Storti, published 1803, page 126:
      [] le serve braccia
      Fornien di leve onnipotenti, ond’alto
      Salisser poi piramidi, obelischi
      They endowed the servile arms with all-powerful levers, so that pyramids and obelisks could then rise
    • 1821, Alessandro Manzoni, Il cinque maggio [The Fifth of May]‎[5], collected in Opere varie di Alessandro Manzoni, Fratelli Rechiedei, published 1881, page 690, lines 17–20:
      Di mille voci al sonito
      Mista la sua non ha:
      Vergin di servo encomio
      E di codardo oltraggio
      With the thousand resounding voices his one does not mix, free from all taint of servile praise and cowardly insult

Noun

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servo m (plural servi, feminine serva)

  1. (literary) slave
    Synonym: schiavo
  2. servant
    Synonyms: servitore, domestico
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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servo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of servire

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *serwāō, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (to watch over, protect). Possible cognates in Ancient Greek Ἥρα (Hḗra), ἥρως (hḗrōs).

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Verb

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servō (present infinitive servāre, perfect active servāvī, supine servātum); first conjugation

  1. to maintain, keep
    Synonyms: teneo, obtineō, retineo, capio, contineō, comprehendo, obsideo, sustineo
    • 165 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Hecyra 3.3.42:
      Pollicitus sum et servāre in eō certumst quod dīxī fidem.
      I’ve made a promise and it’s certain that I shall keep what I said.
    • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 2.3.1–2:
      Aequam mementō rēbus in arduīs
      servāre mentem []
      Remember to maintain a level mind in
      difficult situations []
  2. to protect, save, keep, guard, safeguard, watch over
    Synonyms: salvō, tūtor, vindicō, cū̆stōdiō, sospitō, teneō, adimō, prōtegō, tegō, adsum, sustineō, dēfendō, tueor, prohibeō, arceō, mūniō, ēripiō
    Antonyms: immineō, īnstō, obiectō
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.546–548:
      “Quem sī Fāta virum servant, sī vēscitur aurā
      aetheriā, neque adhūc crūdēlibus occubat umbrīs,
      nōn metus [...].”
      “If the Fates protect this man, if he breathes in the upper air, and neither still has he fallen among the cruel shades, [have] no fear [...].”
      (Ilioneus, speaking of Aeneas, assures Queen Dido regarding the Trojan presence in Carthage.)
  3. to give heed to, pay attention to; watch, observe any thing
    Synonyms: observō, conspiciō, cōnspicor, cū̆stōdiō, animadvertō, caveō, intueor
  4. to save, to deliver, rescue [with (Classical Latin) ex (+ ablative) or (Late Latin) ab (+ ablative) ‘from’]
    Synonyms: līberō, eximō, absolvō, vindicō, excipiō
    Antonyms: refrēnō, coerceō, saepiō, officiō, obstō, comprimō, impediō, arceō, supprimō
    • 54 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De re publica 1.3.5:
      Hinc enim illa et apud Graecōs exempla, Miltiadem, victōrem domitōremque Persārum, nōndum sānātīs volneribus iīs, quae corpore adversō in clārissima victōriā accēpisset, vītam ex hostium tēlīs servātam in cīvium vinclīs prōfūdisse, et Themistoclem patriā, quam līberāvisset, pulsum atque prōterritum non in Graeciae portūs per sē servātōs, sed in barbariae sinūs cōnfūgisse, quam adflīxerat.
      Hence these examples among the Greeks as well: Miltiades, victor and conqueror of the Persians, to have spilt his life, preserved from enemies’ weapons, in the chains of his citizens, with the wounds received on the front of his body in the course of the most glorious victory not yet healed; and Themistocles, banished and driven away from the country he had freed, to have fled not to the harbours of Greece, saved by himself, but to the gulfs of a foreign country, which he had oppressed.
    • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.29.103:
      Super omnia Capitōlium summamque rem in eō sōlus ā Gallīs servāverat, sī nōn regnō suō servasset.
      Above all [‌Lucius Siccius Dentatus] had singlehandedly saved the Capitol and the state treasure therein from the Gauls—had he only not saved it for his own reign.
  5. to preserve, store, keep, reserve
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.207:
      Dūrāte, et vōsmet rēbus servāte secundīs.
      Endure, and preserve yourselves for favourable things.
  6. (figurative) to permit, allow

Conjugation

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   Conjugation of servō (first conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present servō servās servat servāmus servātis servant
imperfect servābam servābās servābat servābāmus servābātis servābant
future servābō servābis servābit servābimus servābitis servābunt
perfect servāvī servāvistī,
servāstī2
servāvit,
servāt2
servāvimus,
servāmus2
servāvistis,
servāstis2
servāvērunt,
servāvēre,
servārunt2
pluperfect servāveram,
servāram2
servāverās,
servārās2
servāverat,
servārat2
servāverāmus,
servārāmus2
servāverātis,
servārātis2
servāverant,
servārant2
future perfect servāverō,
servārō2
servāveris,
servāris2
servāverit,
servārit2
servāverimus,
servārimus2
servāveritis,
servāritis2
servāverint,
servārint2
sigmatic future1 servāssō servāssis servāssit servāssimus servāssitis servāssint
passive present servor servāris,
servāre
servātur servāmur servāminī servantur
imperfect servābar servābāris,
servābāre
servābātur servābāmur servābāminī servābantur
future servābor servāberis,
servābere
servābitur servābimur servābiminī servābuntur
perfect servātus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect servātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect servātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present servem servēs servet servēmus servētis servent
imperfect servārem servārēs servāret servārēmus servārētis servārent
perfect servāverim,
servārim2
servāverīs,
servārīs2
servāverit,
servārit2
servāverīmus,
servārīmus2
servāverītis,
servārītis2
servāverint,
servārint2
pluperfect servāvissem,
servāssem2
servāvissēs,
servāssēs2
servāvisset,
servāsset2
servāvissēmus,
servāssēmus2
servāvissētis,
servāssētis2
servāvissent,
servāssent2
sigmatic aorist1 servāssim servāssīs servāssīt servāssīmus servāssītis servāssint
passive present server servēris,
servēre
servētur servēmur servēminī serventur
imperfect servārer servārēris,
servārēre
servārētur servārēmur servārēminī servārentur
perfect servātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect servātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present servā servāte
future servātō servātō servātōte servantō
passive present servāre servāminī
future servātor servātor servantor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives servāre servāvisse,
servāsse2
servātūrum esse servārī servātum esse servātum īrī
participles servāns servātūrus servātus servandus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
servandī servandō servandum servandō servātum servātū

1At least one use of the archaic "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").
2At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

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Noun

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servō

  1. dative/ablative singular of servus

References

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  • 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[6], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to rescue from peril: aliquem ex periculo eripere, servare
    • to show an affectionate regard for a person's memory: memoriam alicuius pie inviolateque servare
    • to observe the chronological order of events: temporum ordinem servare
    • to observe the chronological order of events: servare et notare tempora
    • to be calm, self-possessed: constantiam servare
    • to preserve one's loyalty: fidem colere, servare
    • to keep one's word (not tenere): fidem servare (opp. fallere)
    • to do one's duty: officium suum facere, servare, colere, tueri, exsequi, praestare
    • to observe moderation, be moderate: modum tenere, retinere, servare, adhibere
    • to keep one's oath: iusiurandum (religionem) servare, conservare
    • to observe the sky (i.e. the flight of birds, lightning, thunder, etc.: de caelo servare (Att. 4. 3. 3)
    • to fast: ieiunium servare
    • to keep up a usage: consuetudinem suam tenere, retinere,[TR1] servare
    • to keep the ranks: ordines servare (B. G. 4. 26)
    • (ambiguous) to narrate events in the order of their occurrence: res temporum ordine servato narrare
  • servo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag

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Etymology

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

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  • Hyphenation: ser‧vo

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

  1. servant
  2. serf
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Noun

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servo m (plural servos)

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

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Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Noun

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servo c

  1. servo

Declension

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Declension of servo
nominative genitive
singular indefinite servo servos
definite servon servons
plural indefinite
definite

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