Daily Ancestorservus
Servus is Latin for a servant, a serf or a slave; the right sense depends on the time and place of the record.
Servus can mean a slave, a serf or a servant. The feminine is serva, and servi is the plural or the genitive.
Famulus and ancilla are other words for a household servant. Read the whole record, and note its time and place, before deciding which sense is meant.
As seen in a recordLatin baptism register, Hungary, 1700s
Paulus, servus Domini de Halaszi, et Anna uxor
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