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servant

servant is a Latin form of servo, meaning “save, guard, keep”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 68 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.23.5: … cum in speciem varietatemque opus deforme non est alternis trabibus ac saxis, quae rectis lineis suos ordines servant, tum ad utilitatem et defensionem urbium summam habet opportunitatem, quod et ab incendio lapis et ab ariete …

Seneca the Younger, Naturales Quaestiones 2.35.2: Fata aliter ius suum peragunt nec ulla commouentur prece. Non misericordia flectuntur non gratia. Seruant cursum irreuocabilem: ingressa ex destinato fluunt. Quemadmodum rapidorum aqua torrentium in se non recurrit, …

Silius Italicus, Punica 2.506: nemo insons: pacem seruant commercia culpae.

All forms of servo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.