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familial

adj
/fəˈmɪljəl/US

Etymology

From French familial (“relating to a family; familial”), from Latin familia (“family (in the sense of the slaves working for a household); household”) (from famulus (“servant; slave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁-m-eló-, from *dʰeh₁- (“to do, place, put”)) + French -al (adjective-forming suffix) (from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Indo-European *-li-). By surface analysis, family + -al. Piecewise doublet of familiar.

  1. derived from *-li-✻
  2. derived from -ālis
  3. derived from -al
  4. derived from *dʰh₁-m-eló-✻
  5. derived from familia
  6. derived from familial

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to a human family.

    • Mark had to leave work due to familial obligations.

  2. Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of family.

    • Having milky latex is a familial characteristic of Apocynaceae.

  3. Of or pertaining to any grouping of things referred to as a family.

    • "Grandfather", "mother", and "brother" are some English familial terms.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Inherited.

      • fatal familial insomnia

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Derived

allofamilial, cofamilial, confamilial, defamilialized, extrafamilial, familial British dementia, familial DNA, familialism, familiality, familialized, familially, familial Mediterranean fever, fatal familial insomnia, infrafamilial, interfamilial, intrafamilial, intrasubfamilial, multifamilial, nonfamilial, postfamilial, sociofamilial, subfamilial, superfamilial, suprafamilial, unfamilial, unifamilial

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA