SERVE Copy link • SERVETo render service, servire alicui or apud aliquem (especially as a slave): alicui famulari, ex alicujus famulatu esse, in famulatu or in ministerio alicujus esse, ministerium alicui facere (as a servant for hire): in alicujus operis esse, operam suam alicui locavisse (to be a day-laborer): alicui apparere (as a secretary, or magistrate’s officer): alicui or alicujus rebus adesse (in a court of justice, as an advocate; opposed to alicui abesse): aliquem colere, venerari (to serve with reverence; as, God): militare: merere; stipendia facere or merere (mereri); stipendia merere in bello (to do military service). To serve on horseback, on foot, equo (equis), pedibus merere; equo (equis), pedibus stipendia facere (merere). To serve for pay, mercede apud aliquem militare: to serve under anybody, aliquo imperatore or imperante, sub aliquo merere; sub aliquo or sub signis alicujus militare; alicujus castra sequi. To serve with anybody, militare cum aliquo; cum aliquo in castris esse: we have served together, eum commilitonem habui; simul militavimus. He had served thirty-five years, quinque et triginta stipendia fecerat: to serve out one’s time, emereri (general term): stipendia conficere or emereri (of soldiers): to have already served out his year, annuum tempus jam emeritum habere: to have served out one’s time, rude donatum esse (PROP., of gladiators; then figuratively and facete also of others, Hor., Ep., 1, 1, 2, Schmid.): stipendiis or militia functum esse (of soldiers). To show favors or civil attentions to anybody, alicui servire, deservire, inservire; alicui adesse, praesto esse (to assist, to be ready to help in time of need): alicui gratum facere, gratificari (to show kindness to anybody): to serve one in anything, aliquem juvare aliqua re (to help with anything): commodare alicui aliquid (to lend). To be useful to or for anything, esse (with a dative; also with a genitive of the participle future passive, and of a substantive): prodesse (to be good for anything): usui or ex usu esse, utilem esse (to be useful or serviceable): utilitatem habere or afferre (to have or bring advantage): conducere, juvare (to be conducive, to aid): valere contra aliquid, mederi alicui rei, facere ad aliquid (to be of service as a remedy against anything; of medicines): to serve as an alleviation, levationem facere; levamentum praestare