subservient

English

Etymology

From Latin subserviens, present active of subservio (“I serve under”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

subservient (comparative more subservient, superlative most subservient)

1. Useful in an inferior capacity.
2. Obsequiously submissive.
   • 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 22 May 2019:

     Sansa takes her place as ruler of the North, a free and independent land no longer subservient to anywhere else. And Arya does what she’s always done best: Make her own way, literally leaving everything she knows behind to see what’s over the next horizon.

Translations

useful in an inferior capacity

Bulgarian: съдействащ (bg) (sǎdejstvašt), помощен (bg) (pomošten) Chinese: Mandarin: 次要的 (cìyàode), 次要 (zh) (cìyào) Czech: podřízený (cs) Finnish: alamainen (fi) Malayalam: അധീനമായ (adhīnamāya), വിധേയമായ (vidhēyamāya) Occitan: asservit, subaltèrn (oc), subordonat Spanish: subordinado (es)

obsequiously submissive

Bulgarian: раболепен (bg) (rabolepen) Chinese: Mandarin: 恭顺 (zh) (gōngshùn) Czech: servilní Finnish: nöyristelevä, alamainen (fi) French: servile (fr) German: lakaienhaft, servil (de), untertänig (de) Irish: spleách Occitan: servil (oc) Portuguese: subserviente (pt) Russian: раболепный (ru) (rabolepnyj) Spanish: servil (es)

See also

• obedient
• subordinate

Latin

Verb

subservient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of subserviō