DictionaryRoot: servare
Latin
servare
keep, preserve, or watch over
Forms
- servare
- servat- — The form used for completed action and later derivatives.
Origin
An inherited Latin verb; its deeper relationship to other old protection words is uncertain.
Note
Keeping something safe and keeping a rule both extend the idea of maintaining it.
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noun
reservoir
REZ-ur-vwar/ˈrezərvwɑːr/
A place or container storing a supply of fluid.
Etymology
A reservoir is a place for “keeping back” or storing something. The word first described a place where things collect or are kept in store, then developed the specific sense of a basin holding water.
Related word entries
- conservancy
- conservation
- conservative
- conservator
- conserveProtect from loss or waste
- conserveFruit preserve
- observable
- observance
- observationCareful watching
- observationFollowing a custom or rule
- observatory
- observeFollowing rules
- observeNoticing and watching
- preservation
- preservative
- preserve
- reservationAdvance arrangement
- reservationDoubt or qualification
- reserveKeeping for future use
- reserveRestraint in expression
- reservist
- reservoir