Serviciului

Serviciului is the genitive/dative singular form of the Romanian masculine noun serviciu, which means service, duty, function, or a particular provision or act of serving. The term can refer to public and private services, professional duties, and the broader concept of performing tasks or facilitating needs. It is also used in fixed phrases to denote specific services, such as public administration or customer support.

Declension and forms: serviciu is the base singular nominative/accusative. The genitive/dative singular form is serviciului. In the plural, the nominative/accusative form is servicii, and the genitive/dative plural is serviciilor. The word follows the standard Romanian pattern for masculine nouns ending in -u, with a distinct genitive/dative singular ending and a plural in -i for the nominative form.

Usage notes: serviciului appears in contexts like rolul serviciului de urgență (the role of the emergency service) or costul serviciului (the cost of the service). It also occurs in expressions referring to the delivery or provision of services, such as furnizarea serviciului sau îndeplinirea serviciului. Beyond concrete services, it can denote duties or functions within an organization, for example, responsabilitatea serviciului public. The term can be extended to compound nouns and institutional titles, such as serviciul poștal or serviciul clienți, depending on the context.

Etymology: serviciu derives from Latin servitium (service, duty) and entered Romanian through Romance or intermediary languages, acquiring Romanian noun morphology and the associated inflected forms, including serviciului in the genitive/dative singular.