maid-servant Copy link Outline 1. ancilla (gen. term)2. fămŭla (chiefly poet.) • maid-servant: 1. ancilla (gen. term): used as fem. to servus, Cic. Verr. 3, 4, 8: Sall.: Hor. Dimin. ancillula (a young m.), Ter.: Ov. 2. fămŭla (chiefly poet.): Virg. Aen. 1, 703: Juv. (in Cic. = attendant, helper).