" services "

[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]  | "answering service" 

1: a commercial service that answers telephone calls for its clients

Origin: 1952 ;

[Noun]  | "civil service" 

1: the administrative service of a government or international agency exclusive of the armed forces; especially : one in which appointments are determined by competitive examination

Origin: circa 1770 ;

[Noun]  | "curb service" 

1: service extended (as by a restaurant) to persons sitting in parked automobiles

Origin: 1925 ;

[Noun]  | "debt service" 

1: the amount of interest and sinking fund payments due annually on long-term debt

Origin: 1929 ;

[Noun]  | "detached service" 

1: military service away from one's assigned organization

Origin: 1835 ;

[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};

[Idiom]  | "for services rendered" 

1: for something that a person, company, etc., has done

[Plural noun]  | "armed forces" 

1: the combined military, naval, and air forces of a nation —called also armed services

Origin: 1572 ;

[Verb]  | "services" 

[Noun]  | "services" 

[Noun]  | "service" 

[Plural noun]  | "armed forces"