Etymology

familia

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Today it means: A household or religious community under one head, regarded as a unit. Full definition →

Latin familia
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromfamilia“family”
  2. English todayfamilia

Learned borrowing from Latin familia (“family”). Doublet of family.

Words from the same roots

Latinfamilia all →

familyfamilialfamilism

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.