The story
- Latin · derived fromservīre
- Old Provençal · derived fromsirventes
- French · borrowed fromsirvente
- English todaysirvente
Borrowed from French sirvente, from Old Provençal sirventes, sirventesc, originally, the poem of, or concerning, a sirvent, from sirvent, properly, serving, n., one who serves (e.g., as a soldier), from servir (“to serve”), from Latin servīre.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.