servir
Spanish
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) to serve to be a servant or worker, to render service
- (intransitive) to serve to be a servant for, to work for
- (intransitive) to be of use, to be good for
- (intransitive) to serve to usefully take the place of something else
- (intransitive) to serve to be in military service
- (intransitive) to serve to set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten
- (intransitive) to serve to lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton, etc.
- (reflexive) to help oneself to to take something freely
Etymology
Inherited from Latin servīre.
Origin
Latin
servīre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- servio, servire Latin
- servitōrem, servītor, servitor Latin
- servīre Latin
- servieren German
- riservire Italian
- servibile Italian
- servire Italian
- servir French
- servidor Spanish, Castilian
- servilleta Spanish, Castilian
- servir Old French
- șerbi Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- magsilbi Tagalog
- silbi Tagalog
- servir Old Portuguese
- servir Asturian
- servî Friulian
- servir Old Occitan
- sirviri Sicilian
- servir Venetian