familia

See also: Familia and 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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin familia.

Noun

familia f (plural families)

1. family

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Esperanto

Etymology

familio +‎ -a (suffix indicating an adjective).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /famiˈlia/
• Hyphenation: fa‧mi‧li‧a
• Rhymes: -ia

Adjective

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

1. familial; family (attributively)

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin familia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [faˈmi.ljɐ]

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

FWOTD – 15 May 2018

Etymology

For *famulia, from famulus (“servant, slave”) (with i < u due to l-exilis, i.e. l before i).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /faˈmi.li.a/, [faˈmɪ.li.a]

Noun

familia f (genitive familiae); first declension

1. family (various senses, see usage notes)
   • Vulgate, Gen. 10, 32.

     Hae familiae Noe iuxta populos et nationes suas. Ab his divisae sunt gentes in terra post diluvium.

     These are the families of Noah, according to their peoples and nations. From these are the tribes apportioned in the world after the deluge.

2. household

   Synonym: domus

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, p. 84.

Inflection

First declension.

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

The older genitive singular familiās is preserved in the term pater familiās and also occurs after filius, mater, and filia.

Synonyms

• (family): gēns

Derived terms

Derived terms

• familiāris
• familiāriter

• familiola
• pater familias

Related terms

Terms related to familia

• familiārēscō
• familiāricus

• familiāritās
• famula

• famulor
• famulus

Descendants

• Albanian: familje, fëmijë
• Aragonese: familha
• Aromanian: fumealji, fumelj
• Asturian: familia
• Catalan: família
• Dalmatian: famalja
• English: family
• French: famille
• Friulian: famee

• Galician: familia
• German: Familie
  • Danish: familie
  • Norwegian: familie
• Hungarian: família
• Istriot: fameîa
• Italian: famiglia
• Ligurian: famìggia
• Malay: famili
• Norman: fanmil'ye, fomille
• Occitan: familha
• Portuguese: família

• Romanian: familie, femeie
• Romansch: famiglia
• Russian: фамилия (famílija)
• Sardinian: famíglia
• Serbo-Croatian: familija
• Sicilian: famigghia
• Spanish: familia
• Swedish: familj
• Translingual: familia (taxonomy)
• Venetian: faméja, famégia
• Walloon: famile

References

• familia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• familia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• familia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• familia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a sect, school of thought: schola, disciplina, familia; secta
    
  • a theatrical company: familia, grex, caterva histrionum
    
  • a band, troupe of gladiators under the management of a lanista: familia gladiatoria (Sest. 64. 134)
    
• familia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• familia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Portuguese

Noun

familia f (plural familias)

1. Obsolete spelling of família

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [faˈmi.li.a]

Noun

familia f

1. definite singular nominative and accusative form of familie.

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin familia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈmilja/

Noun

familia f (plural familias)

1. family (nuclear family)
2. family (grouping of things possessing common characteristics)

Related terms

• familiar
• familiarizar

Descendants

• Tagalog: pamilya

Further reading

• “familia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Swahili

Etymology

From Latin familia.

Noun

familia (n class, plural familia)

1. family
2. (taxonomy) family