“service” in Latin

Duty or benefit rendered, work performed, opera, -ae, feminine; officium (from politeness or kindness): beneficium (a kindness, act of friendship, etc.): usus: utilitas (advantage accruing from an act of service): to perform or render service to anybody, operam alicui navare, dare, dicare (to work for): alicui gratum facere, gratificari; officia alicui praestare, in aliquem conferre (to show kindness to): alicui prodesse (to be useful to; also of medicines): to do service to the state, reipublicae operam praebere. A person does me excellent service, optima alicujus datur opera; mirabiles mihi praebet utilitates: to offer one’s services, offerre se si quo usus operae est; to or in anything, ad aliquid operam suam profiteri. To be always ready to render anybody important services, utilitatibus alicujus parere. To be able to dispense with the services of anybody, alicujus utilitatibus carere posse. I am quite at your service, cupio omnia quae vis (poetical); ad omnia quae velis praesto adero (☞ Cic., ad Fam., 4, 8, 3). Everything I have is at your service, *omnia mea tibi patent, parata sunt.

The work or duty of a soldier, militia (general term): res militaris (general term, everything that belongs to the soldier and his duties): munus militiae (the obligation under which one lies to serve as a soldier): munus belli, munus militare (a single duty belonging to service in war, or in the field; hence munera belli or militaria, military service as denoting the single duties of a soldier). To learn military service, militiam or rem militarem discere; militiam edoceri: capable of military service, homo aetate militari (in respect of age; Tac., Ann., 2, 60, 3; ☞ Liv., 22, 11): qui arma ferre or qui munus militiae sustinere potest (in respect of strength; ☞ Caes., B.G., 6, 18; Liv., 1, 44): not to be capable of service, ad arma inutilem esse: to call out all who are capable of service, omnem militarem aetatem excire (Liv., 7, 7). To declare anybody capable of military service, aliquem probare (☞ Trajanus, ap. Plin. Ep., 42): to enter upon military service, militiam capessere (to undertake): nomen dare militiae, or, from the context, simply nomen dare (to enlist: ☞ not nomen profiteri): to enter military service as a volunteer, voluntariam extra ordinem profiteri militiam (Liv., 5, 7): to enter military service under anybody, ad aliquem militatum ire or abire: to be in the service of anybody (as a mercenary), apud aliquem (e.g., apud Persas) mercede militare: to do military service [Vid: To SERVE (as a soldier)]: to release or dismiss anybody from military service, militia solvere aliquem (Tac., Ann., 1, 44, 4). To be free from military service, militia immunem esse; militia or munere militiae vacare; militiae vacationem habere: to quit service (of soldiers), *discedere ab armis; *missam facere militiam: (of servants), *divertere ab hero.

Office, business, ministerium (as, of a scribe, lictor, etc.): munus, officium, provincia (a public office). To discharge a service, ministerio, munere fungi.

Condition of a servant, servitus: servitium: famulatus (of a domestic service).

Benefit, advantage, lucrum: fructus: commodum: emolumentum: utilitas: usus: [SYN. in GAIN.] To be of service, utilitatem, or usum afferre, or habere, or praebere; usui esse: prodesse: conducere (to be advantageous), all with alicui, to anybody; also, ex usu esse (to be of use) or usui esse: to be of great service, magnae utilitati esse; magnam utilitatem afferre; plurimum or valde prodesse: to be of little service, non multum prodesse: to be of too little service, parum prodesse: to be of service to anybody, esse ex usu alicujus; esse ex aliqua re or in rem alicujus (to be profitable to anybody): alicui prodesse (to be in favor of anybody, of persons and also of things, profitable to anybody): aliquem juvare (to help anybody on): alicui adesse (to assist anybody by advice and by deed, both of persons). To be of little service to anybody, longe alicui abesse (of a thing). To try to be of service to anybody, alicui non deesse (not to leave anybody in the lurch): alicui favere (to assist him by one’s influence). To make anybody to be of service to us, alicujus animum conciliare et ad usus nostros adjungere. To be of service to others by one’s own knowledge, and the insight one has of things in general, suam intelligentiam prudentiamque ad hominum utilitatem conferre. To be of service to the state by the experience one has acquired, consilio et prudentia rem publicam adjuvare: to be of no service, nihil prodesse [Vid: also, “to no PURPOSE”].

Public office of devotion, Dei cultus: divinus cultus (divine worship, in general): res divinae (anything relating to that worship): sacra, nominative plur. (everything respecting the outer worship, sacrifice, etc.). To read the service, sacra procurare: sacris operari: res divinas rite perpetrare (in the sense, at least, of the ancients); also, facere sacra publica: to be at the service, sacris adesse (of the people): rebus divinis interesse (of the minister): belonging to the service, ad Dei cultum (or ad res divinas or ad sacra) pertinens.

(At table) (At table) set of dishes, etc., synthesis (Statius, Sylv., 4, 9, 44; Mart., 4, 46, 15): ferculum (a course of dishes; Petronius, Suet.; missus, a course, late Latin).