English
inservient
Inservient comes from Latin inserviens ‘deferring to, serving’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinserviens‘deferring to, serving’
- Englishearliest quotation 1646inservient
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinserviens‘deferring to, serving’
- Englishearliest quotation 1646inservient
Earliest quotation: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: “[…] although their intellectuals had not failed in the…”
Every English word from Latin inserviens
Today it means
adj Conducive; instrumental.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin inserviens / inservient