servans

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of servō.

Participle

servāns (genitive servantis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. maintaining, saving, preserving, keeping
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.36–37:
      cum Iūnō, aeternum servāns sub pectore volnus, haec sēcum
      When Juno, preserving [that] everlasting wound deep in her heart, [said] these [things] to herself: [...].
      (That is, Juno feels unremitting anger due to her several grievances against the Trojans. Some translations use the idiom of “nursing” the figurative injury and its injurious emotions.)

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative servāns servantēs servantia
Genitive servantis servantium
Dative servantī servantibus
Accusative servantem servāns servantēs
servantīs		 servantia
Ablative servante
servantī1		 servantibus
Vocative servāns servantēs servantia

1When used purely as an adjective.

References
  • “servans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “servans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • servans 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)
  • servans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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