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servo — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • serf noun A peasant tied to a piece of land under a feudal lord, obliged to work it but with very limited personal freedoms.
  • thrall noun A person held as a slave or in servitude, under the total control of another.
  • vassal noun In the feudal system, someone granted land by a lord in return for loyalty and service.

Senses

servo is used for these senses in English:

  • serf A 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.
  • thrall (literary, or, puristic, otherwise, archaic) Slave; one under the control of another.
  • vassal (historical, law) The grantee of a fief, a subordinate granted use of a superior's land and its income in exchange for vows of fidelity and homage and (typically) military service.

thrall — full definition

  1. noun A person held as a slave or in servitude, under the total control of another.
  2. noun The state of being completely controlled or dominated by something.
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