Definition of "servile"

servile

/ˈsɜː(ɹ).ˌvaɪl/

adjective
comparative more servile, superlative most servile
1. Of or pertaining to a slave.
  Quotations
  Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!
  c. 1699 – 1703, Alexander Pope, “The First Book of Statius His Thebais”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717
2. Slavish or submissive.
3. (grammar) Not belonging to the original root.
4. (grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.
noun
plural serviles
1. (grammar) An element which forms no part of the original root.
2. A slave; a menial.