serf

From Middle English serf, from Old French serf, from Latin servus (“slave, serf, servant”), perhaps of Etruscan origin

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɜːf/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sɝf/
• Homophone: surf (in accents with the fern-fir-fur merger)
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)f

serf (plural serfs)

1. A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.
2. A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.
3. (strategy games) A worker unit.

• (strategy games): peasant, peon, villager

• slave

• ESRF, FERS, Refs, erfs, f***ers, refs

From Middle Dutch serf, from Old French serf, from Latin servus.

serf m (plural serven, diminutive serfje n)

1. A serf, semifree peasant obliged to remain on the lord's land and to perform extensive chores for him

• horige
• laat
• lijfeigene

From Middle French serf, from Old French serf, from Latin servus (“slave, serf, servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo- (“guardian”), or perhaps of Etruscan origin.

• IPA^(key): (predominant) /sɛʁf/, (rarely) /sɛʁ/
• Homophones: cerf, sers, sert

serf m (plural serfs, feminine serve)

1. A serf, semifree peasant obliged to remain on the lord's land and to perform extensive chores for him

serf (feminine singular serve, masculine plural serfs, feminine plural serves)

1. being or like a serf, semifree

• “serf” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• fers

From French cerf.

serf

1. deer

From Old French serf.

serf m (plural serfs)

1. serf (semifree peasant)

• French: serf

From Latin servus.

serf m (oblique plural sers, nominative singular sers, nominative plural serf)

1. serf (semifree peasant)

• English: serf (borrowed)
• Middle French: serf
  • French: serf

See servir

serf

1. first-person singular present indicative of servir

From French cerf

serf

1. deer

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français