Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights. · A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe. · A worker unit.
From Middle English serf, from Old French serf, from Latin servus (“slave, serf, servant”).
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- Root classification mention*ser- (guard)ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionserfenm
- Derivation mentionserffro
- Derivation mentionservusla · slave, serf, servant
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