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serviendum

serviendum is a Latin form of servio, meaning “serve, be a slave (to); be devoted to (+dat.)”. It is the gerundive genitive plural neuter or gerundive genitive plural masculine or gerundive accusative singular masculine or gerundive nominative singular neuter.

Found 33 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.199: … muneris in rem publicam fungi ac sustinere velitis. imponitis decumas, patiuntur; alteras, temporibus vestris serviendum putant; dent emptum praeterea; dabunt, si voletis.

Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 31·3: … fecisse, nisi deinde faciendi licentia eripitur, et vobis aeterna sollicitudo remanebit, cum intellegetis aut seruiendum esse aut per manus libertatem retinendam. Nam fidei quidem aut concordiae quae spes est? Dominari illi volunt …

Plautus, Pseudolus 5.1.1249: pérgitin pérgere? ah, sérviendúm mihi

All forms of servio (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.