Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.

pertaining to or involving slaves; "the servile wars of Sicily"

submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior; "spoke in a servile tone"; "the incurably servile housekeeper"; "servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work"

Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.

Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.

Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.

An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.