" service "

[Noun]  | "ser*vice" | \ ˈsər-vəs \

1: the occupation or function of serving

2: employment as a servant

3: the work performed by one that serves

Origin: 13th century ;

 Middle English service, servise "state of serving or being at someone's command, position in a household, duty which a tenant is owed to a lord, assistance, form followed in Christian worship, provision of food at a table," borrowed from Anglo-French (also continental Old French), borrowed from Medieval Latin servitium, going back to Latin, "condition of being a slave, servitude," (in plural) "slaves as a class," from servus "slave" + -itium {see: |-ice|-ice} {mat|serve:1|};

  * Note : The Latin noun broadened its meaning in post-classical Latin (and in loans into vernacular languages), so that it effectually functioned as a deverbal noun corresponding to servīre "to {serve:1|serve:1}.";

[Noun]  | "ser*vice" | \ ˈsər-vəs \

1: an Old World tree (Cormus domestica) resembling the related mountain ashes but having larger flowers and larger edible fruit; also : a related Old World tree (Torminalis glaberrima) with bitter fruits

Origin: 1530 ;

 Probably respelling by folk-etymological association with {see: |service:1|service:1} of serves, plural of serve "the tree Sorbus domestica, its fruit," going back to Middle English cerve, cirve, serve, going back to Old English syrfe (weak noun), borrowed from Vulgar Latin *sorbea, from Latin sorbum "fruit of Sorbus domestica and related species" (of uncertain origin) + -ea, noun derivative of -ea, feminine of -eus {see: |-eous|-eous};

  * Note : Latin sorbum has been compared with a group of words in East Slavic and Baltic, as Russian sorobalína "blackberry (Rubus sp.)," regional serbalína, serebrína "dog rose," and Lithuanian serbentà, serbénta "black currant (Ribes nigrum)," serbeñtas, ser͂bentas "red currant (Ribes rubrum)," and sirbstù, sir͂bti "to ripen." In the older literature these are linked with an assemblage of words allegedly going back to an Indo-European root *ser-, *sor-, *sr̥- "red, reddish," joined to an assortment of root extensions (compare Lithuanian sar͂tas "bay [of horses]" and other Baltic examples in E. Fraenkel, Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch). More recently, M. de Vaan (Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages, Brill, 2011) is skeptical of such a relationship and suggests at best a non-Indo-European etymon *sVrb- meaning "berry.";

[Noun]  | "service animal" 

1: a domesticated animal and usually a dog that is trained to perform a supportive function for its owner (such as guiding an owner who is blind or alerting an owner who is deaf to sounds)

Origin: 1988 ;

[Noun]  | "service book" 

1: a book setting forth forms of worship used in religious services

Origin: 1553 ;

[Noun]  | "service box" 

1: the area in which a player stands while serving in various court games (such as squash or handball)

Origin: 1885 ;

[Noun]  | "service cap" 

1: a flat-topped visor cap worn as part of a military uniform

Origin: 1826 ;

[Noun]  | "service ceiling" 

1: the altitude at which under standard air conditions a particular aircraft can no longer rise at a rate greater than a small designated rate (such as 100 feet per minute)

Origin: 1920 ;

[Verb]  | "service" 

1: to perform services for: such as

2: to repair or provide maintenance for

3: to meet interest and sinking fund payments on

Origin: 1602 ;

 Derivative of {see: |service:1|service:1};

[Adjective]  | "service" 

1: of or relating to the armed services

2: used in serving or supplying

3: intended for hard or everyday use

Origin: 1718 ;

 From attributive use of {see: |service:1|service:1};

[Biographical name]  | "Ser*vice" | \ ˈsər-vəs \

1: Robert William 1874—1958 Canadian writer

[Verb]  | "service" 

[Noun]  | "service" 

[Noun]  | "service charges" 

[Noun]  | "service clubs" 

[Noun]  | "service caps" 

[Noun]  | "service cap" 

[Noun]  | "service mark" 

[Noun]  | "service charge" 

[Noun]  | "service marks" 

[Adjective]  | "service"