Latin

Noun

servitūs f ‎(genitive servitūtis); third declension

1. slavery, servitude
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Exodus.20.2

     Ego sum Dominus Deus tuus, qui eduxi te de terra Aegypti, de domo servitutis.

     I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Declension

Third declension.

Derived terms

• servitūs in faciendō cōnsistere nequit

Related terms

• serva
• serviō
• servus

References

• servitus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• servitus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SERVITUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “servitus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to languish in slavery: servitute premi (Phil. 4. 1. 3)
    
  • to enslave a free people: liberum populum servitute afficere
    
  • to reduce to slavery: aliquem in servitutem redigere
    
  • to lay the yoke of slavery on some one: alicui servitutem iniungere, imponere
    
  • to keep the citizens in servile subjection: civitatem servitute oppressam tenere (Dom. 51. 131)
    
  • to carry off into slavery: aliquem in servitutem abducere, abstrahere
    
  • to submit to the yoke of slavery: iugum servitutis accipere
    
  • to shake off the yoke of slavery: iugum servitutis excutere
    
  • to shake off the yoke of slavery: servitutem exuere (Liv. 34. 7)
    
  • to deliver some one from slavery: ab aliquo servitutem or servitutis iugum depellere
    
• servitus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• servitus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin