Where does “servient” come from?
Servient comes from Latin serviens, the present participle of servio, derived from servus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ser-.
servient (English): subordinate
Ancestry of “servient”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | serviēns | — |
| 2 | Latin | serviō | — |
| 3 | Latin | servus | a servant; a serf; a slave |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | serwos | guardian |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ser-wo-s | guardian |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ser- | to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together |