servo

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɜː.vəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝ.voʊ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vəʊ

Clipping of servomotor.

servo (plural servos)

2. A servomechanism or servomotor.
   • 2003, Roger Williams, How to Improve Triumph TR5, 250 and 6, page 45:

     A Lockheed Type 6 remote servo adds a 1.9 multiplier to the pedal pressures and, at about £140, is rather cheaper than all the Girling single line remote servos I′ve seen advertised.

   • 2004, Myke Predko, 123 Robotics Experiments for the Evil Genius, page 300:

     If you are using Futaba servos with the application, make sure that you change the data values accordingly.

   • 2008, Mark L. Latash, Neurophysiological Basis of Movement, page 95:

     The servo is an autonomic element of a control system: Setting a desired value of an output parameter makes a servo do its job independently of other factors as long as the specified value remains constant.

• servocontrol
• servocontroller
• servo-driven
• servosystem

servo (third-person singular simple present servos, present participle servoing, simple past and past participle servoed)

1. To control by means of servocontrol

Clipping of service station +‎ -o.

servo (plural servos)

2. (Australia, New Zealand) A service station, being a place to buy petrol for cars etc., as well as various convenience items, with or without actual car service facilities.
   • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 83:

     Two hours later Susan pulled the Pajero off the road onto the floodlit apron of the servo at the end of the Bowen bypass.

   • 2008, Roz Hopkins, Pumped, page 12:

     Crude oil is purchased in US dollars, so the price of the petrol at your local servo is heavily influenced by the rate of exchange between the greenback and the Aussie dollar.

   • 2011 July 16, “Beechboro servo bandit escapes with cash”, in The West Australian:
   • 2011 July 17, “Teen arrested over servo robbery”, in Illawarra Mercury:

• Vores, overs, roves, verso, vores

From servi (“to serve”) +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /ˈservo/
• Rhymes: -ervo

servo (accusative singular servon, plural servoj, accusative plural servojn)

1. service

From English servo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈserʋo/, [ˈs̠e̞rʋo̞]
• Rhymes: -erʋo
• Hyphenation^(key): ser‧vo

servo

1. servo

• “servo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• verso

From Old Galician-Portuguese servo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin servus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛɾβʊ]

servo m (plural servos, feminine serva, feminine plural servas)

1. serf

   Antonyms: amo, señor

2. servant

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “servo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “servo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “servo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “servo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “servo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin servus, from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo- (“guardian”), or perhaps of Etruscan origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛr.vo/
• Rhymes: -ɛrvo
• Hyphenation: sèr‧vo

servo (feminine serva, masculine plural servi, feminine plural serve)

1. (literary) servile (of or pertaining to a slave)
   • 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VI”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎^[2], lines 76–78; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[3], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Ahi serva Italia, di dolore ostello,
     nave sanza nocchiere in gran tempesta,
     non donna di provincie, ma bordello!

     Ah! servile Italy, grief's hostelry! A ship without a pilot in great tempest! No Lady thou of Provinces, but brothel!

   • 1763, Giuseppe Parini, “Il mattino [Morning]”, in Opere dell'abate Giuseppe Parini - Volume primo [Works of abbot Giuseppe Parini - Volume one]‎^[4], Venice: Giacomo Storti, published 1803, page 126:

     […] le serve braccia
     Fornien di leve onnipotenti, ond’alto
     Salisser poi piramidi, obelischi

     They endowed the servile arms with all-powerful levers, so that pyramids and obelisks could then rise

   • 1821, Alessandro Manzoni, Il cinque maggio [The Fifth of May]‎^[5], collected in Opere varie di Alessandro Manzoni, Fratelli Rechiedei, published 1881, page 690, lines 17–20:

     Di mille voci al sonito
     Mista la sua non ha:
     Vergin di servo encomio
     E di codardo oltraggio

     With the thousand resounding voices his one does not mix, free from all taint of servile praise and cowardly insult

servo m (plural servi, feminine serva)

1. (literary) slave

   Synonym: schiavo

2. servant

   Synonyms: servitore, domestico

• servigio
• servile
• servire
• servitù
• servizio
• servo-

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

servo

1. first-person singular present indicative of servire

• sevro, verso, versò

From Proto-Italic *serwāō, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to watch over, protect”). Possible cognates in Ancient Greek Ἥρα (Hḗra), ἥρως (hḗrōs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈser.u̯oː/, [ˈs̠ɛru̯oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈser.vo/, [ˈsɛrvo]

servō (present infinitive servāre, perfect active servāvī, supine servātum); first conjugation

1. to maintain, keep

   Synonyms: teneo, obtineō, retineo, capio, contineō, comprehendo, obsideo, sustineo

   • 165 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Hecyra 3.3.42:

     Pollicitus sum et servāre in eō certumst quod dīxī fidem.

     I’ve made a promise and it’s certain that I shall keep what I said.

   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 2.3.1–2:

     Aequam mementō rēbus in arduīs
     servāre mentem […]

     Remember to maintain a level mind in
     difficult situations […]

2. to protect, save, keep, guard, safeguard, watch over

   Synonyms: salvō, tūtor, vindicō, cū̆stōdiō, sospitō, teneō, adimō, prōtegō, tegō, adsum, sustineō, dēfendō, tueor, prohibeō, arceō, mūniō, ēripiō

   Antonyms: immineō, īnstō, obiectō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.546–548:

     “Quem sī Fāta virum servant, sī vēscitur aurā
     aetheriā, neque adhūc crūdēlibus occubat umbrīs,
     nōn metus [...].”

     “If the Fates protect this man, if he breathes in the upper air, and neither still has he fallen among the cruel shades, [have] no fear [...].”
     (Ilioneus, speaking of Aeneas, assures Queen Dido regarding the Trojan presence in Carthage.)

3. to give heed to, pay attention to; watch, observe any thing

   Synonyms: observō, conspiciō, cōnspicor, cū̆stōdiō, animadvertō, caveō, intueor

4. to save, to deliver, rescue [with (Classical Latin) ex (+ ablative) or (Late Latin) ab (+ ablative) ‘from’]

   Synonyms: līberō, eximō, absolvō, vindicō, excipiō

   Antonyms: refrēnō, coerceō, saepiō, officiō, obstō, comprimō, impediō, arceō, supprimō

   • 54 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De re publica 1.3.5:

     Hinc enim illa et apud Graecōs exempla, Miltiadem, victōrem domitōremque Persārum, nōndum sānātīs volneribus iīs, quae corpore adversō in clārissima victōriā accēpisset, vītam ex hostium tēlīs servātam in cīvium vinclīs prōfūdisse, et Themistoclem patriā, quam līberāvisset, pulsum atque prōterritum non in Graeciae portūs per sē servātōs, sed in barbariae sinūs cōnfūgisse, quam adflīxerat.

     Hence these examples among the Greeks as well: Miltiades, victor and conqueror of the Persians, to have spilt his life, preserved from enemies’ weapons, in the chains of his citizens, with the wounds received on the front of his body in the course of the most glorious victory not yet healed; and Themistocles, banished and driven away from the country he had freed, to have fled not to the harbours of Greece, saved by himself, but to the gulfs of a foreign country, which he had oppressed.

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.29.103:

     Super omnia Capitōlium summamque rem in eō sōlus ā Gallīs servāverat, sī nōn regnō suō servasset.

     Above all [‌Lucius Siccius Dentatus] had singlehandedly saved the Capitol and the state treasure therein from the Gauls—had he only not saved it for his own reign.

5. to preserve, store, keep, reserve
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.207:

     Dūrāte, et vōsmet rēbus servāte secundīs.

     Endure, and preserve yourselves for favourable things.

6. (figurative) to permit, allow

Conjugation of servō (first conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	servō	servās	servat	servāmus	servātis	servant
	imperfect	servābam	servābās	servābat	servābāmus	servābātis	servābant
	future	servābō	servābis	servābit	servābimus	servābitis	servābunt
	perfect	servāvī	servāvistī, servāstī2	servāvit, servāt2	servāvimus, servāmus2	servāvistis, servāstis2	servāvērunt, servāvēre, servārunt2
	pluperfect	servāveram, servāram2	servāverās, servārās2	servāverat, servārat2	servāverāmus, servārāmus2	servāverātis, servārātis2	servāverant, servārant2
	future perfect	servāverō, servārō2	servāveris, servāris2	servāverit, servārit2	servāverimus, servārimus2	servāveritis, servāritis2	servāverint, servārint2
	sigmatic future1	servāssō	servāssis	servāssit	servāssimus	servāssitis	servāssint
passive	present	servor	servāris, servāre	servātur	servāmur	servāminī	servantur
	imperfect	servābar	servābāris, servābāre	servābātur	servābāmur	servābāminī	servābantur
	future	servābor	servāberis, servābere	servābitur	servābimur	servābiminī	servābuntur
	perfect	servātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	servātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	servātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	servem	servēs	servet	servēmus	servētis	servent
	imperfect	servārem	servārēs	servāret	servārēmus	servārētis	servārent
	perfect	servāverim, servārim2	servāverīs, servārīs2	servāverit, servārit2	servāverīmus, servārīmus2	servāverītis, servārītis2	servāverint, servārint2
	pluperfect	servāvissem, servāssem2	servāvissēs, servāssēs2	servāvisset, servāsset2	servāvissēmus, servāssēmus2	servāvissētis, servāssētis2	servāvissent, servāssent2
	sigmatic aorist1	servāssim	servāssīs	servāssīt	servāssīmus	servāssītis	servāssint
passive	present	server	servēris, servēre	servētur	servēmur	servēminī	serventur
	imperfect	servārer	servārēris, servārēre	servārētur	servārēmur	servārēminī	servārentur
	perfect	servātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	servātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	servā	—	—	servāte	—
	future	—	servātō	servātō	—	servātōte	servantō
passive	present	—	servāre	—	—	servāminī	—
	future	—	servātor	servātor	—	—	servantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		servāre	servāvisse, servāsse2	servātūrum esse	servārī	servātum esse	servātum īrī
participles		servāns	—	servātūrus	—	servātus	servandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		servandī	servandō	servandum	servandō	servātum	servātū

¹At least one use of the archaic "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").
²At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• serviō

servō

1. dative/ablative singular of servus

• “servo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “servo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• servo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[6], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to rescue from peril: aliquem ex periculo eripere, servare
    
  • to show an affectionate regard for a person's memory: memoriam alicuius pie inviolateque servare
    
  • to observe the chronological order of events: temporum ordinem servare
    
  • to observe the chronological order of events: servare et notare tempora
    
  • to be calm, self-possessed: constantiam servare
    
  • to preserve one's loyalty: fidem colere, servare
    
  • to keep one's word (not tenere): fidem servare (opp. fallere)
    
  • to do one's duty: officium suum facere, servare, colere, tueri, exsequi, praestare
    
  • to observe moderation, be moderate: modum tenere, retinere, servare, adhibere
    
  • to keep one's oath: iusiurandum (religionem) servare, conservare
    
  • to observe the sky (i.e. the flight of birds, lightning, thunder, etc.: de caelo servare (Att. 4. 3. 3)
    
  • to fast: ieiunium servare
    
  • to keep up a usage: consuetudinem suam tenere, retinere,[TR1] servare
    
  • to keep the ranks: ordines servare (B. G. 4. 26)
    
  • (ambiguous) to narrate events in the order of their occurrence: res temporum ordine servato narrare
    
• servo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag

From Latin servus, from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo- (“guardian”), or perhaps of Etruscan origin.

• Audio (Brazil):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ser‧vo

servo m (plural servos, feminine serva, feminine plural servas)

1. servant
2. serf

• servir
• serviço
• serviçal
• servente

• criado
• escravo

servo m (plural servos)

1. Abbreviation of servomecanismo.
2. Abbreviation of servomotor.

• “servo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

servo c

1. servo

• bromsservo
• servomotor
• servostyrning
• servosystem

• servo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• servo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• servo in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)