Etymology

ancilla

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Today it means: A maid. Full definition →

Latin ancilla
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromancilla“maid, slave-girl”
  2. English todayancilla

From Latin ancilla (“maid, slave-girl”).

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