What is slave in Latin?
The Latin word for a "slave" is servus. We derive our modern words "servant" and, via French, "serf" (a person tied to a piece of land) from this word.The modern English word "slave" is from Latin sclavus(pronounced [sklawus]), the word for the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe which originally came from Greek. This word was borrowed by many Germanic peoples because so many Slavs were used as slaves.