familial
Pronunciation: /fəˈmɪljəl/
The English word “familial” has 4 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to a human family.
- Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of family.
- Of or pertaining to any grouping of things referred to as a family.
- Inherited.
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.…
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