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masculine

/sɛʁ.vœʁ/

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Translation

waiter; server (computer)

Word origin

From servir ('to serve') with the agent suffix -eur, from Latin servire, from servus ('slave, servant'). The computing sense was borrowed back from English 'server' in the late twentieth century.

Origin: Latin
Root: servire
English cognates: serve, servant, service

Grammar

Gendermasculine

Pluralserveurs

Examples

l'addition.

The waiter brought us the bill.

My brother is a waiter in a café in the town centre.

pourboire au .

We left the waiter a tip.

The server has been down since this morning.

stockées Irlande.

All the photos are stored on a server in Ireland.

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This word is part of lesson 33.