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servis

servis is a Latin form of servus, meaning “slave”. It is the dative plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of serva, “slave woman; (servus) slave”.

Found 204 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.30.1: … fuga cum constaret Drappetem Senonem, qui, ut primum defecerat Gallia, collectis undique perditis hominibus, servis ad libertatem vocatis, exulibus omnium civitatum adscitis, receptis latronibus impedimenta et commeatus Roman …

Suetonius, Divus Julius 75.3: … te ipsius interemptos putant, quorum tamen et priores post impetratam ueniam rebellauerant et Caesar libertis seruisque eius ferro et igni crudelem in modum enectis bestias quoque ad munus populi comparatas contrucidauerat.

Seneca the Younger, De Clementia 1.18.1: Servis imperare moderate laus est. Et in mancipio cogitandum est, non quantum illud impune possit pati, sed quantum …

All forms of servus (declension 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.