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deservio

v. n., to serve zealously, be devoted to, subject to (rare, but class.): valetudini tuae, dum mihi deservis, servisti…

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Where it lives

De Otio 1 · 5.1/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k
Pro P. Sulla 1 · 1.07/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 1 · 1.02/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Pro P. Sestio 1 · 0.6/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
De Beneficiis 2 · 0.44/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dē-servĭo — Lewis & Short

dē-servĭo, īre,

I v. n., to serve zealously, be devoted to, subject to (rare, but class.): valetudini tuae, dum mihi deservis, servisti non satis, Cic. Fam. 16, 18: cuivis, id. Off. 1, 30, 109: amicis, id. Sull. 9: grammatico soli deserviamus, deinde geometrae? Quint. 1, 12, 6: (Epicurei) sibi indulgentes et corpori deservientes, Cic. Leg. 1, 13, 39: studiis, Plin. Ep. 7, 7, 3: honoribus, id. Pan. 77, 6: Deo meo, Vulg. Act. 24, 14.—

B Of subjects not personal: si officia, si operae, si vigiliae deserviunt amicis, praesto sunt omnibus, Cic. Sull. 9: nec unius oculis flumina, fontes, maria deserviunt, Plin. Pan. 50, 1; cf.: quoddam deserviens his (sc. oculis) ministerium, Quint. 11, 3, 77.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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