[Main Street]

What’s the origin of the word, “Slave”, anyway? Does anybody know?

[Albion Wilde]

What’s the origin of the word, “Slave”, anyway? Does anybody know?

From Dictionary.com:

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME sclave < ML sclavus (masc.), sclava (fem.) slave, special use of Sclavus Slav, so called because Slavs were commonly enslaved in the early Middle Ages; see Slav]