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servire

servire is a Latin form of servio, meaning “serve, be a slave (to); be devoted to (+dat.)”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 165 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 43: … illius ordinis ex municipiis rusticanis, nonne optatissimum sibi putant esse filios suos rei familiari maxime servire et in praediis colendis operae plurimum studique consumere?

Suetonius, Tiberius 29.1: … aepe alias, p. c., bonum et salutarem principem, quem uos tanta et tam libera potestate instruxistis, senatui seruire debere et uniuersis ciuibus saepe et plerumque etiam singulis; neque id dixisse me paenitet, et bonos et aequ …

Plautus, Persa 1.1.7: Qui eró suo servíre volt bene sérvos servitútem,

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.