familia
noun
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.
familiae
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pluralof familia.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
The priests of the temples and the colleges of pontiffs had their familiae of slaves.
From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Andrew Stephenson
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
There were other festivals in which all the familiae of a pagus took part.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
