servir
Sentences
Meaning
- (transitive) to serve (to work as a servant for someone)
- (transitive) to serve (to worship a god)
- (transitive) to serve (to give out or place down food or drink)
- (intransitive) to serve (to be part of an armed force)
- (intransitive) to suffice; to do (to be good enough for a task)
- (intransitive) to be for (to have as its purpose or utility)
Concepts
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/seʁˈvi(ʁ)/
Etymology
In summary
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.? Proto-Italic *serwos Latin servus Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Latin -io Latin serviō Old Galician-Portuguese servir Portuguese servir From Old Galician-Portuguese servir, from Latin servīre.
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