familia
Americannoun
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familiae
plural
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a group of people who are socially connected because they share an occupation or a special undertaking, such as being in a film crew or activist movement.
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a Sicilian mafia family.
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Roman History. a household or extended family under a patriarch or paterfamilias, including adoptees and slaves.
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A team of gladiators was called a familia and was trained in a gladiatorial school by a lanista, the manager of the group.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
“I’ve got my family, mi familia, right here,” Mr. Abbott, who is seeking a third term, told his supporters.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
Huerta says that despite the obstacles of time and location, their sense of familia helped make the process easier, even in front of a live audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
Her “want” is to have a power like everyone else in her gifted familia.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2021
The next decision was obvious: we four girls would be sent summers to the Island so we wouldn't lose touch with la familia.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
No great success could attend these efforts; the abnormal circumstances which had brought to Rome the great familiae of slaves reacted inevitably upon the citizen body itself through the process of manumission.
From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by W. Warde Fowler
The tendency certainly grew with the custom of forming familiae which messed separately and it certainly increased with time.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
In the preface of the Syllabica on the art of Prosody dedicated to him by Pompilio, the latter hails him as the hope and ornament of the Hous of Borgia—"Borgiae familiae spes et decus."
From The Life of Cesare Borgia by Rafael Sabatini
This was the division of a nunnery into familiae, or households, which messed together, each familia taking its meals separately from the rest.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
Another argument brought forward is that 30 or 40 acres was enough land for the support of the average family, in other words that it was the terra unius familiae of Bede.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
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