Family word in latin

The Latin word for family is
familia

Translations for family and their definitions

familia
1. n. family (various senses, see usage notes)
2. n. household
3. n. A quantity of land adequate for the maintenance of one family.

gens
1. n. Roman clan (related by birth or marriage and sharing a common name and often united by certain religious rites)
2. n. tribe; people, family
3. n. the chief gods
4. n. (biblical, Christianity, Judaism) gentile, Gentile

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Each new paragraph shows a new generation (g means ‘great’). Enclosures within (brackets) indicate the maternal side :

tritavus = tritavia g.g.g.g.grandfather, mother

atavus=atavia g.g.g.grandfather, mother

patruus maximus g.grand uncle — amita maxima aunt — abavus *grandfather(=abavia — avunculus maximus g.grand uncle — matertera maxima aunt)

patruus maior g.g.grand uncle — amita maior aunt — proavus *grandfather(=proavia — avunculus maior g.g.grand uncle — matertera maior aunt)

patruus magnus g.grand uncle — amita magna aunt — avus *grandfather(=avia — avunculus magnus g.grand uncle — matertera magna aunt)

patruus uncle — amita aunt — pater father=(mater *mother — avunculus uncle — matertera aunt)

frater or levir brother/wife’s brother-in-law — soror sister — MARITUS=(UXOR — uxoris frater *husband’s brother-in-law — uxoris soror or gloshusband’s sister-in-law

filius son = nurus *daughter-in-law — filia daughter =gener son-in-law

Note 1. Contemporary with pater=mater are socer father-in-law and socerus mother-in-law. The parents of these two are prosocer and prosocerus

Note 2. Cousins, whether the children of patruus/amita or avunculus/matertera are consobrinus and consobrina

Note 3. The grandchildren of MARITUS=UXOR are nepos and neptis, whose respective spouses are pronurus and progener. Their great-grandchildren are pronepos and proneptis.

Note 4. There are no special terms for nephews and nieces who are described as filius/filia of fratris/sororis.

Finally, there is an extra set to cover step-relations. If you think they are useful to you, or you would like them simply for the sake of completeness, they are novercus, stepmother and vitricus, stepfather. The step-children are privignus and privigna.

Translingual[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin familia.

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin familia.

Noun[edit]

familia f

1. family

Asturian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin familia.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

familia f (plural families)

1. family

Chamorro[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish familia

Noun[edit]

familia

1. family

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Spanish familia.

Noun[edit]

familia

1. family

Esperanto[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

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

1. familial; family (attributively)

Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin familia.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [faˈmi.ljɐ]

Noun[edit]

familia f (plural familias)

1. family

Further reading[edit]

• “familia” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Indonesian[edit]

Noun[edit]

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

1. family

Ingrian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Russian фамилия (familija).

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

familia

1. surname, last name

Declension[edit]

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[edit]

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

Interlingua[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /faˈmi.lja/

Noun[edit]

familia (plural familias)

1. family

Ladin[edit]

Noun[edit]

familia f (plural families)

1. family

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Italic *fameljā (“of the house → household”). 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[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

• gēns

Derived terms[edit]

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Descendants[edit]

Borrowings

References[edit]

• “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

Further reading[edit]

• “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^[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

Leonese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

familia f (plural familias)

1. family

References[edit]

• AEDLL

Mòcheno[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

familia f

1. family

References[edit]

• “familia” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin familia.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

familia f (diminutive familijka)

1. (dated) family

   Synonym: rodzina

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

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Further reading[edit]

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

Portuguese[edit]

Noun[edit]

familia f (plural familias)

1. Obsolete spelling of família

Romanian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [faˈmi.li.a]

Noun[edit]

familia f

1. definite singular nominative/accusative of familie

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin familia.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

familia f (plural familias)

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

Hyponyms[edit]

• familia política

Derived terms[edit]

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Descendants[edit]

• → Cebuano: pamilya
• → Chamorro: familia
• → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: familia
• → Ilocano: pamilia
• → Tagalog: pamilya
• → Waray-Waray: pamilya

Further reading[edit]

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

Swahili[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin familia.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

familia (n class, plural familia)

1. family

   Synonym: ayali

2. (taxonomy) family