servisable

Middle English

Alternative forms

• servicable, serviceable, serviciable, servisabul, servyciable, servysable, servyseable
• servesabill (East Saxon); servisabylle, servysabill (Northern); serwiciabill, serwysiabyll (Early Scots)
• servysiabylle (Catholicon Anglicum); cervyciable (Promptorium Parvulorum)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French servisable; equivalent to servise +‎ -able; first attested in c. 1380. Compare serviable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɛrvisˈaːbəl/, /ˌsɛrvisˈaːblə/

Adjective

servisable

1. Obedient, happy to serve.
2. (rare) Helpful, functional.
3. (biblical) Prohibited on the Sabbath.

Descendants

• English: serviceable
• Middle Scots: serviciabyll

References

• “servisāble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.