servitor
One who performs the duties of a servant.
Noun
- One who performs the duties of a servant.
- The button-covered servitor had no doubt but that his sovereign's answer would be in reply, "Then he may go;" but he was mistaken, for Lady Anne had discovered that she looked well in her beautiful lace nightcaps, as...
- 1884, W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida You'll find no sizars here, or servitors / or other cruel distinctions meant to draw / a line 'twixt rich and poor
- Several days passed by, and to all appearance we had quite forgotten our poor old servitor, – so heartless in remembrance is weak humanity to its nearest and dearest, – when, in course of time, it got to be New Year's...
- One who serves in an army; a soldier.
- An undergraduate who performed menial duties in exchange for financial support from his college, particularly at Oxford University.
Origin
From Middle English servitour, borrowed from Latin servītor, from servīre (“to serve”).