English Explanatory Dictionary

familial

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to a human family.
  2. Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of family.
  3. Of or pertaining to any grouping of things referred to as a family.
  4. Inherited.

Pronunciation

/fəˈmɪljəl/ en-au-familial.ogg

Word forms

familial

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.

Related words

familiar familiarity familiarly family

Derived words

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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