Meanings
plural subfamilies
- A secondary or subordinate grouping.
There is a handy font editor tool in the engine, where you can import your font and create family and subfamily for your font (for example, the same font can have a family for its bold, italic, light, and dark style as its subfamily).
2015, Nicola Valcasara, Unreal Engine Game Development Blueprints, page 142
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*upó
- Proto-Italic*supo
- Latinsub
- Latinsub-
- Englishsub-
- Englishfamily
- Englishsubfamily
Translations
Afrikaans subfamilie, onderfamilie
- subfamilietaxonomic category
- onderfamilietaxonomic category
Catalan subfamília
- subfamíliataxonomic category
Chinese Mandarin 亞科 /亚科
- 亞科 /亚科 (yàkē)taxonomic category
Czech podčeleď
- podčeleďtaxonomic category
Danish underfamilie
- underfamilietaxonomic category
Dutch onderfamilie, subfamilie
- onderfamilietaxonomic category
- subfamilietaxonomic category
Finnish alaheimo
- alaheimotaxonomic category
French sous-famille
- sous-familletaxonomic category
German Unterfamilie, Subfamilie
- Unterfamilietaxonomic category
- Subfamilietaxonomic category
Greek υποοικογένεια
- υποοικογένεια (ypooikogéneia)taxonomic category
Indonesian upafamili, upakeluarga
- upafamilitaxonomic category
- upakeluargataxonomic category
Italian sottofamiglia
- sottofamigliataxonomic category
Malay subkeluarga, subfamili
- subkeluargataxonomic category
- subfamilitaxonomic category
Polish podrodzina
- podrodzinataxonomic category
Portuguese subfamília
- subfamíliataxonomic category
Romanian sub-familie
- sub-familietaxonomic category
Russian подсеме́йство
- подсеме́йство (podseméjstvo)taxonomic category
Spanish subfamilia
- subfamiliataxonomic category
Swedish underfamilj
- underfamiljtaxonomic category
Tagalog kub-angkanhay
- kub-angkanhaytaxonomic category
Welsh is-deulu
- is-deulutaxonomic category
Cite this entry
subfamily. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subfamily
“subfamily.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subfamily. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “subfamily,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subfamily.
Source: subfamily on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.