familia

American  

[fuh-mil-ee-uh, fuh-mil-yuh, -meel-] / fəˈmɪl i ə, fəˈmɪl jə, -ˈmil- /

noun

• familiae
  plural

1. 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.

2. a Sicilian mafia family.

3. Roman History. a household or extended family under a patriarch or paterfamilias, including adoptees and slaves.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• familiae
  plural

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Example Sentences

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familia familiae

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

“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

Ms. Flores’ campaign signs do not mention policy or party, but instead highlight three words: “Dios, familia, patria.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2022

Twenty years after introducing Dom Toretto to audiences, Diesel has taken the character through many stoic iterations of what familia and modern machismo mean.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2021

I can’t remember half of what we talked about, except that Leslie said friends can be like familia.

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes

Among its Latin equivalents are terra unius familiae, terra unius cassati and mansio; the first of these forms is used by Bede, who, like all early writers, gives to it no definite area.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

It may also conveniently be compared with the evidence given by the same visitations as to the system of familiae in these houses.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power

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

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

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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