Servile /(?)/

Serv·ile

Servile

a.
  1. Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.
    She must bend the servile knee.
    Fearing dying pays death servile breath.
  2. Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
    Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!
  3. Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter. (Gram.)

Servile

n.
  1. An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical. (Gram.)