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Meaning of servio | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
[ˈsɛr.wi.oː]

Definitions

  1. to be a slave to; to serve
    conjugation-4, impersonal
  2. to be devoted to, subject to
    conjugation-4, impersonal
  3. to have respect to, regard or care for, consult
    conjugation-4, impersonal
  4. to aim at
    conjugation-4, impersonal

Examples

““… Liceat Phrygiō servīre marītō,”

“[This arrangement will] permit [Dido] to be enslaved to her Phrygian husband [Aeneas], and — as her dowry — to surrender the Tyrians into your hands.” (Juno mocks Dido and insults Venus’s son, Aeneas, yet tries to tempt Venus with shared dominion over Carthage.)

“Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Epistula XCII”

No one is free who is a slave to his body.

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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