familia

See also: Familia, família, and famìlia

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin familia.

Noun

familia

  1. (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below ordo and above genus.
  2. (taxonomy) A taxon at this rank.

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin familia (family). Doublet of family.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fəˈmɪlɪə/
  • (file)
  • Homophone: familiar (some non-rhotic accents)

Noun

familia (plural familiae)

  1. (historical) A household or religious community under one head, regarded as a unit.
    • 2007, Ada I. Engebrigtsen, Exploring Gypsiness, page 117:
      Joska's elder brother Phuro was, however, seen as the leader of his familia. As one of the oldest males in the hamlet, with a familia that consisted of sons, bora and sons-in-law, Phuro's position as head of his familia was given by his age and by his authority as father.
  2. (Roman law) The paterfamilias, his legitimate descendants and their wives, all persons adopted into his family and their wives, and all slaves belonging to the household.

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin familia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faˈmilja/
  • Rhymes: -ilja
  • Syllabification: fa‧mi‧lia

Noun

familia f (plural familias)

  1. family

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin familia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faˈmilja/, [faˈmi.lja]
  • Rhymes: -ilja
  • Hyphenation: fa‧mi‧lia

Noun

familia f (plural families)

  1. family

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish familia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /familia/ [fa.mi.li.a]
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: fa‧mi‧li‧a

Noun

familia anim

  1. family, lineage
    Synonym: sendi

Declension

Derived terms

  • familia-harrera
  • familia-liburu
  • familia-mediku
  • familiaburu
  • familiarte (relative)
  • familiarteko
  • familiatu

Further reading

  • "familia" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
  • familia” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

Chamorro

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish familia

Noun

familia

  1. family

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

From Spanish familia.

Noun

familia

  1. family

Esperanto

Etymology

From familio (family) + -a (suffix indicating an adjective).

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • IPA(key): [famiˈlia]
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: fa‧mi‧li‧a

Adjective

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

  1. familial; family (attributively)

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin familia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faˈmilja/ [faˈmi.ljɐ]
  • Rhymes: -ilja
  • Hyphenation: fa‧mi‧lia

Noun

familia f (plural familias)

  1. family

Further reading

Indonesian

Noun

familia (first-person possessive familiaku, second-person possessive familiamu, third-person possessive familianya)

  1. family

Ingrian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian фамилия (familija).

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈfɑmiliɑ/, [ˈfɑmiˌlʲiɑ]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈfɑmilʲiɑ/, [ˈfɑmiˌlʲiɑ]
  • Rhymes: -iɑ
  • Hyphenation: fa‧mi‧li‧a

Noun

familia

  1. Synonym of sukunimi

Declension

Declension of familia (type 3/kana, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative familia familiat
genitive familian familioin
partitive familiaa familioja
illative familiaa familioi
inessive familias familiois
elative familiast familioist
allative familialle familioille
adessive familial familioil
ablative familialt familioilt
translative familiaks familioiks
essive familianna, familiaan familioinna, familioin
exessive1) familiant familioint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 38

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faˈmi.lja/

Noun

familia (plural familias)

  1. family

Ladin

Noun

familia f (plural families)

  1. family

Latin

FWOTD – 15 May 2018

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fameljā (of the house → household), from earlier *θameljā.

In view of the semantic shift illustrated in the cognates, famulus (servant, slave) (with Oscan 𐌚𐌀𐌌𐌄𐌋 (famel, servile)) is probably a backformation from it and not the other way around. From Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁-m-eló-m (fundament), from *dʰeh₁- (to do, put, place). Cognate with Sanskrit धामन् (dhāman, order; dwelling-place, temple; family), Ancient Greek θεμέλιος (themélios, of the foundation), θέμις (thémis, justice, law).

Pronunciation

Noun

familia f (genitive familiae); first declension

  1. a household (all persons subject to the control of one man (whether relations, freedmen or slaves))
  2. the slaves of a household, servants
  3. a group of slaves stationed in one place; a brigade, gang (used for some purpose)
    1. one's personal retinue
  4. a family, kin (a group of people closely related to one another)
    Synonym: domus
    • Vulgate, Genesis 10.32:
      Hae familiae Nōē iū̆xtā populōs et nātiōnēs suās. Ab hīs dīvīsae sunt gentēs in Terrā post dīluvium.
      These are the families of Noah, according to their peoples and tribes. From them split the nations on Earth after the deluge.
  5. an intellectual school (e.g., of philosophy)
    Synonym: domus
  6. (law) an estate (sometimes distinct from pecūnia and possibly restricted to rēs mancipī)

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.”[1]

Declension

First-declension noun.

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 frequent in the expression pater familiās and the similar expressions with fīlius, māter, and fīlia as the first element.

Holonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Eastern Romance
    • Aromanian: fumealji, fumealje, fãmealji, fãmealje
    • Megleno-Romanian: fumeaľă, fămęľă
    • Romanian: femeie, fomeie, fimeie; fămeie
  • Gallo-Italic
  • Rhaeto-Romance
    • Friulian: famee
    • Romansch: fumegl, famagl, fameglia
  • Venetian: fameja, famégia, famegia
  • Aragonese: familha
  • Italo-Dalmatian
Borrowings

References

  • familia” on page 740 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “famulus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 200
  1. 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

Further reading

  • 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • familia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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

Leonese

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faˈmilja/, [faˈmi.lja]
  • Rhymes: -ilja
  • Hyphenation: fa‧mi‧lia

Noun

familia f (plural familias)

  1. family

References

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Italian famiglia, from Latin familia (family; household).

Noun

familia f

  1. family

References

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin familia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faˈmi.lja/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ilja
  • Syllabification: fa‧mi‧lia

Noun

familia f (diminutive familijka, related adjective familijny)

  1. (dated) family
    Synonym: rodzina

Declension

adjectives
adverbs
  • familiarnie
  • familijnie
nouns

Further reading

  • familia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • familia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

familia f (plural familias)

  1. Obsolete spelling of família

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [faˈmi.li.a]

Noun

familia f

  1. definite singular nominative/accusative of familie

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin familia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faˈmilja/ [faˈmi.lja]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ilja
  • Syllabification: fa‧mi‧lia

Noun

familia f (plural familias)

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

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese família,[1] ultimately from Latin familia.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

familia (n class, plural familia)

  1. family
    Synonym: ayali
  2. (taxonomy) family

References

  1. Harvey, Andrew (2014) “Epenthetic Vowels in Swahili Loanwords”, in Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, volume 8, number 2, page 38 of 17-45:origin is more likely to be Pt. "família"
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