serva

Inherited from Latin sorbus, with unexplained mutation of the vowel.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsɛr.bə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈsər.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈseɾ.va]

serva f (plural serves)

1. serviceberry (fruit)

• server

Inherited from Latin serva.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈser.bə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈser.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈseɾ.va]

serva f (plural serves)

1. female equivalent of serf

serva f (plural servas)

1. female equivalent of servo

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛr.va/
• Rhymes: -ɛrva
• Hyphenation: sèr‧va

From Latin serva.

serva f (plural serve, masculine servo)

1. (literary) (female) slave

   Synonym: schiava

2. servant, maid

   domestica, cameriera

• servetta
• sottoserva

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

serva f sg

1. feminine singular of servo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

serva

1. inflection of servire:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• versa

From servus (“slave, servant”) + -a (feminine suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛr.wa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛr.va]

serva f (genitive servae, masculine servus); first declension

1. servant
2. a female slave

First-declension noun.

Inflected form of servō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛr.waː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛr.va]

servā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of servō

• “serva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “serva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "serva", 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)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to examine slaves by torture: de servis quaerere (in dominum)
    

Borrowed from Sicilian sirviri (conjugated servi) and/or Italian servire, both from Latin servire.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛr.va/
• Rhymes: -ɛrva

serva (imperfect jservi, past participle servit or servut or mservi)

1. to serve (arrange and provide food or drink)
2. to serve (render service to)

   Synonym: qeda

serva (present tense servar, past tense serva, past participle serva, passive infinitive servast, present participle servande, imperative serva/serv)

1. a-infinitive form of serve

• avser, ervas, revas, sarve, vares, versa

• IPA^(key): (Sulista) /ˈsɛɾ.va/, /ˈsɛɹ.vɐ/, /ˈsɛɻ.vɐ/
• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛʁ.vɐ/

serva f (plural servas)

1. female equivalent of servo

serva

1. feminine singular of servo

• “serva”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “serva”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

serva (present servar, preterite servade, supine servat, imperative serva)

1. (sports) to serve (in tennis or volleyball); to put the ball in motion
2. to give service (to a car), to service, to maintain, to lube

• “serva”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• avres, avser, varse, vaser