familiaris

Latin

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁-mo-

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁melós

Proto-Italic *θamelos

Proto-Italic *famelos

Proto-Italic *fameliā

Latin familia

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin -āris

Latin familiāris

From familia (“household”) + -āris.

familiāris (neuter familiāre, comparative familiārior, superlative familiārissimus, adverb familiāriter); third-declension two-termination adjective

of or pertaining to servants
of or pertaining to a household or family
Synonym: domesticus

res familiaris ― family estate, family heritage
familiar, intimate, friendly
Synonyms: intima, amicus
of or belonging to one's own self, country, etc.
customary, habitual
Synonym: solitus

Antonym: insolitus
fitting, appropriate
Synonyms: intima, dignus, aptus, habilis, opportunus, iustus, legitimus, idoneus Antonym: indignus

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	masc./fem.	neuter	masc./fem.	neuter
	singular		plural
nominative	familiāris	familiāre	familiārēs	familiāria
genitive	familiāris		familiārium
dative	familiārī		familiāribus
accusative	familiārem	familiāre	familiārīs familiārēs	familiāria
ablative	familiārī		familiāribus
vocative	familiāris	familiāre	familiārēs	familiāria

familiāris m (genitive familiāris); third declension

a servant, domestic
Synonym: appāritor
a friend, familiar acquaintance
- 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Letters to Friends:
  Hīs ego tamen diēbus, lūdīs scaenicīs, nē forte videar tibi nōn modo beātus sed līber omnīnō fuisse, dīrūpī mē paene in iūdiciō Gallī Canīnī, familiāris tuī.
  As for me, these past days, during the plays (in case you picture me as a free man, if not a happy one), I pretty well ruptured my lungs defending your friend Gallus Caninius.
a relative
someone belonging to a family or household, which might include any or all of the above
- c. 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 47.14:
  Dominum patrem familiae appellāvērunt; servōs, quod etiam in mīmīs adhūc dūrat, familiārēs.
  They called the master the “father of the family,” and the slaves — as still happens in stage plays — “members of the family.”
  (The Roman paterfamilias ruled a familia which might include relations, slaves, and freedmen. Seneca, here advocating for humane treatment of slaves, probably implies the broader ancient sense of familiares.)

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -ī).

“familiaris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“familiaris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“familiaris”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the ordinary usage of language, everyday speech: sermo familiaris et cotidianus
- to keep house: rem domesticam, familiarem administrare, regere, curare
- to manage one's affairs, household, property well or ill: rem familiarem tueri
- to neglect, mismanage one's household matters: rem familiarem neglegere
- to squander all one's property: dissipare rem familiarem (suam)
DIZIONARIO LATINO, OLIVETTI