name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
familia
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/fəˈmɪlɪə/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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homophone: familiar (some non-rhotic accents)
noun
Meaning 2
A household or religious community under one head, regarded as a unit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 3
The paterfamilias, his legitimate descendants and their wives, all persons adopted into his family and their wives, and all slaves belonging to the household.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Roman
Topics: law
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History
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin familia (“family”). Doublet of family.