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Familial

//fəˈmɪljəl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to a human family. not-comparable

    "Mark had to leave work due to familial obligations."

  2. 2
    Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of family. not-comparable

    "Having milky latex is a familial characteristic of Apocynaceae."

  3. 3
    Of or pertaining to any grouping of things referred to as a family. not-comparable

    ""Grandfather", "mother", and "brother" are some English familial terms."

  4. 4
    Inherited. not-comparable

    "fatal familial insomnia"

Adjective
  1. 1
    occurring among members of a family usually by heredity wordnet
  2. 2
    relating to or having the characteristics of a family wordnet

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. Piecewise doublet of familiar.

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