servus
Sign in to saveServus, and various local variants thereof, is a salutation used in many parts of Central and Eastern Europe, derived from Latin for 'slave, servant'. It is a word of greeting or parting like the Italian (which also comes from the 'slave' meaning through Venetian ).
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Servus, and various local variants thereof, is a salutation used in many parts of Central and Eastern Europe, derived from Latin for 'slave, servant'. It is a word of greeting or parting like the Italian (which also comes from the 'slave' meaning through Venetian ).
The salutation is spelled in German, Bavarian, Slovak, Romanian and Czech. In Rusyn and Ukrainian it is spelled , in the Cyrillic alphabet. In Slovenian and Croatian the variant spelling is also used. The greeting is spelled (sometimes spelled szerbusz) in Hungarian and in Polish.