familia

See also: família

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin familia.

Noun

familia

1. (taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification, above both genus and species.
2. (taxonomy) A taxon at this rank.

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Asturian

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Noun

familia f (plural families)

1. family

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Esperanto

Etymology

familio +‎ -a (suffix indicating an adjective).

Adjective

familia (plural familiaj, accusative singular familian, accusative plural familiajn)

1. familial; family (attributively)

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin familia.

Noun

familia f (plural familias)

1. family

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈmi.lja/

Noun

familia (plural familias)

1. family

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Ladin

Noun

familia f (plural families)

1. family

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Latin

Etymology

From famulus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /faˈmi.li.a/

Noun

familia f (genitive familiae); first declension

1. family, various senses
2. household

Inflection

First declension.

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	familia	familiae
genitive	familiae	familiārum
dative	familiae	familiīs
accusative	familiam	familiās
ablative	familiā	familiīs
vocative	familia	familiae

The older genitive singular "familias" is preserved in the term pater familias.

Synonyms

• (family): gēns

Derived terms

• familiāris
• familiāriter
• familiola
• pater familias

Related terms

• familiārēscō
• familiāricus
• familiāritās

• famula
• famulor
• famulus

Descendants

• Albanian: fëmijë
• Aromanian: fumealje
• Catalan: família
• Dalmatian: famalja
• English: family
• French: famille
• Friulian: famee
• Galician: familia
• Hungarian: família
• Istriot: fameîa
• Italian: famiglia
• Jèrriais: fanmil'ye

• Malay: famili
• Occitan: familha
• Portuguese: família
• Romanian: familie, femeie
• Romansch: famiglia
• Russian: фамилия (famílija)
• Sardinian: famíglia
• Sicilian: famigghia
• Spanish: familia
• Translingual: familia (taxonomy)
• Venetian: faméja
• Walloon: famile

Usage notes

• According to Richard Saller, "[f]amilia was never used to mean 'father, mother and children' in our sense of [']family' today. It did have a technical, legal usage akin to 'family', but in common parlance most often meant 'slave staff', exclusive of the master's family.... The usual word for 'family' in the classical period was domus, which carried the general sense of 'household' including domestic slaves." Saller, Richard, Slavery and the Roman Family, in Finley, Moses I., ed., Classical Slavery (London: Frank Cass, cloth 1987 & 2000 (same ed.), reprinted 1999 (ISBN 0-7146-3320-8)), p. 84.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [faˈmi.li.a]

Noun

familia f (singular, nominative/accusative, definite form of familie)

1. the family

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin familia.

Noun

familia f (plural familias)

1. family (nuclear family)
2. family (group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order)

Related terms

• familiar
• familiarizar