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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Forty-six of them contained the word family or mi familia.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025
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
“Mi familia es mi inspiración, mi familia es mi motivación,” she said, alternating between English and Spanish at Hector’s Mexican Restaurant in Lake Ridge on Friday night.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2022
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
Many were the gibes and high was the glee on that occasion; pointed were the jokes aimed at young Bienville on his being thus transformed into a matrimonial agent and pater familiae.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 by John Rudd
At the death of a pater familias his sons in turn became the head of familiae, dividing the estate.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
Ferrero assumes that these words were to be taken as representing the families of all worshippers present, who would repeat the words "mihi domo familiae."
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
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
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