Servus

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Servus, and various local variants thereof, is a salutation used in many parts of Central and Eastern Europe, derived from Latin for 'slave, servant'. It is a word of greeting or parting like the Italian ciao (which also comes from the 'slave' meaning through Venetian s'ciao). The salutation is spelled servus in German, Bavarian, Slovak, Romanian and Czech. In Rusyn and Ukrainian it is spelled сервус, in the Cyrillic alphabet. In Slovenian and Croatian the variant spelling serbus is also used. The greeting is spelled szervusz (sometimes spelled szerbusz) in Hungarian and serwus in Polish. The use of servus in German is regional, largely to South Germany, Austria, and South Tirol. In the last two in Bavarian it is also spelled servas.

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