service

sə́ːrvis · noun/ adjective/verb

Guess the word based on the mean. Slave, curch seremony, help people through work

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Why I Collected This Word

I reminded Our school's motto "Not success, But service" to choice my word. The service is means help someone. That is pretty nice meaning. So I have wanted to search how this word made.

01 Birth

Origin Journey

Frenchservise-Latinservitium-Englishservice
Source language
Latin
Word parts
N/A
Original meaning
church ceremony
First known English use
13c
Original English meaning
funeral

This breakdown explains the word’s historical imagery; it is not a literal modern definition.

02 Change & ContextNext, follow how that first meaning moved, and what world it moved through.Continue to 02 Change & Context →

02 Change & Context

How service changed over time

One card per era — the meaning it carried, and the world it carried it in.

11c~13c.

church seremony

In 13th century England, Church and catholic had a strong power. And There was controlled by peoson who use French. So Some Latin words inflow to sland of Great Britain with French include 'a service'. that time say seruise to use the word 'service'. *Seruise(service's old word) that in source 1, It's on 42 page 9th paragraph.

BC 1c~

slave/serve someone

Slave who serve his owner. So this time, Service means serve someone like Slave

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18~19c

provide to someone work or convenience

This time, Industrial Revolution took the world. UK also taken it. So products were divide with service. So their people used this word for divided products

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03 Network

Word Network

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serviceantonymsuccesshistoricalslavebiblicalMission

Antonym

  • successStrong — Dreamy students are value for service than success. Even Dreamy school's motto is 'Not success, But service'.

Historical Connection

  • slaveDirect — In middle English, Service meaned 'slave work for his owner. Nowdays, It mean was disapointed. But we should know how people used the first 'service'.

Biblical / Theological

  • MissionPersonal interpretation — Service had meaning that help soemone. It's a similar with missionary. Mission also help someone with gospel. So our school's motto is also "Not success, But service".

04 VoicesNext, ask people what the word means to them today.Continue to 04 Voices →

04 Voices

Community Voices

1 person answered.

“Not success, But service”

Hajin Lim · student · teens
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05 ReflectionNext, put the first definition beside the one that survived.Continue to 05 Reflection →

05 Reflection

My Definition of SERVICE

Before Research

work for help/support someone

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After Research

Service had lots of means. Originally mean is 'slave'. And than, mean changed to curch seremony. Now, mean is help people through work such as hospital, police etc... meanning of word is highly volatile.

The evidence that changed my thinking

around 10 centuary ago, Service's mean was pretty different than now. I relized word is change many time over time.

How the thinking moved
I used to think…
I though the Service means help someone through work.
I discovered…
The service's first mean is slave. After that, mean changed slave to curch seremony. And It's came from French. But this word's root is Latin. So Service means not only help someone through work but also slave and curch seremony.

Next · JournalAnd from there, the writing begins.Continue to Next · Journal →

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