sclavus

From Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”), from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos), from Proto-Slavic *slověninъ, because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages.^[1][2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskɫa.wʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsklaː.vus]

sclavus m (genitive sclavī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) slave

Second-declension noun.

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: shcljau, shcljeauã
  • Romanian: șcheau, șchiau
• Italian: schiavo, stiavo (Tuscany)
• Sardinian: isciabu, isciau, isclavu, iscrau, iscravu, sciau
• Sicilian: scavu
• Friulian: sclâf, sclâv
• Venetan: sciavo, s-ciao
  • → Italian: ciao (see there for further descendants)
• → Albanian: shqa (earlier borrowing), skllav (later borrowing)
• → Aromanian: sclav, sclavu
• → Asturian: esclavu
• → Breton: sklav
• → Catalan: esclau
• → Galician: escravo
• → German: Sklave
• → Manx: sleab
• → Middle Dutch: slave
  • Dutch: slaaf
    • Afrikaans: slaaf
    • Negerhollands: slaav
    • → Caribbean Javanese: slaf
    • → Sranan Tongo: srafu
• → Middle French: sclave
  • French: esclave
    • Haitian Creole: esklav
  • → English: slave
    • → Welsh: slaf, yslaf
  • → Irish: sclábh
    • ⇒ Irish: sclábhaí
• → Middle High German: sklafe, sklave
  • German: Sklave, Sclave, Sklav, Slav, Slave, Slaf, Slafe, Schlav, Schlave, Schlaff, Schlaffe (obsolete)
    • → Danish: slave
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: slave
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: slave
    • → Yiddish: שקלאַף (shklaf)
• → Occitan: esclau
• → Portuguese: escravo
• → Romanian: sclav
• → Scots: sclave
• → Spanish: esclavo

• ancula (> ancilla)
• anculus
• servus
• familiāris
• sclava

• "sclavus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)