Legal Definition and Related Resources of Servile

Meaning of Servile

Synonyms of Servile

adjective

abiectus
abject
compliant
deferential
downtrodden
fawning
groveling
harnessed
humble
humilis
ingratiating
low
mean
meek
menial
obedient
obeisant
obsequious
passive
prostrate
respectful
senilis
slavish
subject
submissive
subordinate
supple
sycophantic
tractable
truckling
unassertive
unresisting
vernile

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This term is an adjetive.

Etimology of Servile

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late 14c., from Latin servilis “of a slave” (as in Servile Wars, name given to the slave revolts in the late Roman Republic), also “slavish, servile,” from servus “slave” (see serve (verb)). Earliest sense was legal, servile work being forbidden on the Sabbath; sense of “cringing, fawning” first recorded c. 1600.

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