different between financial vs servitor

English

Etymology

finance +? -ial

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa??næn??l/, /f??næn??l/

Adjective

financial (not comparable)

1. Related to finances.

   For financial reasons, we're not going to be able to continue to fund this program.
2. Having dues and fees paid up to date for a club or society.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with fiscal, which means more narrowly “pertaining to a treasury, particularly to government spending and revenue”, rather than to money generally.

Derived terms

• financial market
• financial year
• financial regulation

Related terms

• finances
• financier

Translations

See also

• fiscal

English

Etymology

From Middle English servitour, borrowed from Latin serv?tor, from serv?re, present active infinitive of servi? (“I serve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??.v?.t??/, /?s??.v?.t??/
• AHD: /sûr'v?-tôr'/

Noun

servitor (plural servitors)

1. One who performs the duties of a servant.
   • 1927, The Saturday Evening Post (volume 200, page 150)

     He heard Rogers' voice raised in the reception room; he stepped to the doorway and saw his servitor arguing with an elderly and trampish man who had got in somehow.

2. One who serves in an army; a soldier.
3. (historical) An undergraduate who performed menial duties in exchange for financial support from his college, particularly at Oxford University.

Quotations

• 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"

• 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 22

  The servitors waxed silent, each lost in introspection, until the rattle of the Valmouth cab announced the expected guest.

Anagrams

• overstir

Latin

Etymology

From servus (“slave”) +? -tor

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ser?u?i?.tor/, [s??r?u?i?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ser?vi.tor/, [s?r?vi?t??r]

Noun

serv?tor m (genitive serv?t?ris); third declension

1. a servant, a servitor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• servitor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• servitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French serviteur, Italian servitore, Latin serv?tor, equivalent to servi +? -tor.

Noun

servitor m (plural servitori, feminine equivalent servitoare)

1. servant, attendant, domestic, retainer, manservant

Synonyms

• slug?