sclavus

See also: Sclavus

Latin

From Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”), from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos), from Proto-Slavic *slověninъ, because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages.[1][2]

sclavus m (genitive sclavī); second declension

Second-declension noun.

Eastern Romance:
- Aromanian: shcljau, shcljeauã
- Romanian: șcheau, șchiau
Italian: schiavo, stiavo
Sardinian: isciabu, isciau, isclavu, iscrau, iscravu, sciau
Sicilian: schiavu
Friulian: sclâf, sclâv
Venetian: sciavo, s-ciao
- → Italian: ciao (see there for further descendants)
→ Albanian: shqa (earlier borrowing), skllav (later borrowing)
→ Aromanian: sclav, sclavu
→ Asturian: esclavu
→ Breton: sklav
→ Catalan: esclau
→ Galician: escravo
→ German: Sklave
→ Manx: sleab
→ Middle Dutch: slave
- Dutch: slaaf
  - Afrikaans: slaaf
  - Negerhollands: slaav
  - → Caribbean Javanese: slaf
  - → Sranan Tongo: srafu
→ Middle French: sclave
- French: esclave
  - Haitian Creole: esklav
- → English: slave
  - → Welsh: slaf, yslaf
→ Middle High German: sklafe, sklave
- German: Sklave, Sclave, Sklav, Slav, Slave, Slaf, Slafe, Schlav, Schlave, Schlaff, Schlaffe
  - → Danish: slave
  - → Norwegian: slave
→ Old Irish: scláb
→ Occitan: esclau
→ Portuguese: escravo
→ Romanian: sclav
→ Scots: sclave
→ Spanish: esclavo
→ Yiddish: שקלאַף (shklaf)

sclavus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

“slave”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
“slave”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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