# serva
## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin sorbus, with unexplained mutation of the vowel.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈsɛr.bə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈsər.və]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈseɾ.va]

#### Noun

serva f (plural serves)
* serviceberry (fruit)

##### Derived terms

* server

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin serva.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈser.bə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈser.və]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈseɾ.va]

#### Noun

serva f (plural serves)
* female equivalent of serf

## Galician
### Noun

serva f (plural servas)
* female equivalent of servo

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛr.va/
* Rhymes: -ɛrva
* Hyphenation: sèr‧va

### Etymology 1

From Latin serva.

#### Noun

serva f (plural serve, masculine servo)
* (literary) (female) slave
    Synonym: schiava
* servant, maid
    domestica, cameriera

##### Derived terms

* servetta
* sottoserva

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

serva f sg
* feminine singular of servo

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

serva
* inflection of servire:
** first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* versa

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From servus (“slave, servant”) +‎ -a (feminine suffix).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈser.u̯a/, [ˈs̠ɛru̯ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈser.va/, [ˈsɛrvä]

#### Noun

serva f (genitive servae, masculine servus); first declension
* servant
* a female slave

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

### Etymology 2

Inflected form of servō.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈser.u̯aː/, [ˈs̠ɛru̯äː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈser.va/, [ˈsɛrvä]

#### Verb

servā
* second-person singular present active imperative of servō

### References

* “serva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “serva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* serva in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) to examine slaves by torture: de servis quaerere (in dominum)

## Maltese

* Root
* s-r-v-j
* 2 terms

### Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian sirviri (conjugated servi) and/or Italian servire, both from Latin servire.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛr.va/

### Verb

serva (imperfect jservi, past participle servit or servut or mservi)
* to serve (arrange and provide food or drink)
* to serve (render service to)
    Synonym: qeda

#### Derived terms

* sserva

#### Derived terms

* servizz

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

serva (present tense servar, past tense serva, past participle serva, passive infinitive servast, present participle servande, imperative serva/serv)
* a-infinitive form of serve

### Anagrams

* avser, ervas, revas, sarve, vares, versa

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsɛʁ.vɐ/ [ˈsɛɦ.vɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsɛʁ.vɐ/ [ˈsɛɦ.vɐ]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈsɛɾ.vɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈsɛʁ.vɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈsɛɻ.va/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsɛɾ.vɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsɛɾ.vɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈsɛɾ.bɐ/ [ˈsɛɾ.βɐ]
* (Sulista) IPA: /ˈsɛɾ.va/, IPA: /ˈsɛɹ.vɐ/, IPA: /ˈsɛɻ.vɐ/
* (Northeast Brazil) IPA: /ˈsɛʁ.vɐ/

### Noun

serva f (plural servas)
* female equivalent of servo

### Adjective

serva
* feminine singular of servo

## Swedish
### Verb

serva (present servar, preterite servade, supine servat, imperative serva)
* (sports) to serve (in tennis or volleyball); to put the ball in motion
* to give service (to a car), to service, to maintain, to lube

#### Conjugation
### References

* serva in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

### Anagrams

* avres, avser, varse, vaser