Servile

Part of speech: noun (n.)

An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.

Part of speech: adjective (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. Thomson. Fearing dying pays death servile breath. Shak.

2. Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved. Even fortune rules no more, O servile land! Pope.

3. Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.

4. Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.