servitor
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈsɜɹ.vɪ.təɹ/ / /ˈsɜɹ.vɪ.tɔɹ/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English servitour, borrowed from Latin servītor, from servīre (“to serve”).
- One who performs the duties of a servant.
“The button-covered servitor had no doubt but that his sovereign's answer would be in reply, "Then he may go;" but he was mistaken, for Lady Anne had discovered that she looked well in her beautiful lace nightcaps, as most people do when their flesh has fallen away, and they are verging to the lantern jaw;...”
“1884, W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida You'll find no sizars here, or servitors / or other cruel distinctions meant to draw / a line 'twixt rich and poor”
- One who serves in an army; a soldier.
- An undergraduate who performed menial duties in exchange for financial support from his college, particularly at Oxford University.