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Meaning of servio | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
[ˈsɛr.wi.oː]

Definitions

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

Conjugation

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Equivalents

العربية قصد هدف
Ελληνικά επιδιώκω
Suomi tähdätä
Gàidhlig stràc
हिन्दी साधना
日本語 目掛ける
한국어 겨누다
Latina capto destino expeto peto
Српски ciljati циљати

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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