family

English

/ˈfæm(ɪ)li/, /ˈfæm(ə)li/, /ˈfɛm(ɘ)li/

noun
Definitions
  • (countable) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
  • (countable) An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
  • (countable) (an individual who belongs to one's family).
  • (countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
  • (uncountable) lineage, especially an honorable one
  • (countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
  • (countable) Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
  • (countable) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
  • (countable) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

Etymology

Derived from Latin familia (family, household, domestics collectively, the servants in a household) derived from Old Latin famul derived from Oscan famel (servant) root from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (put, place, set, do, suck, suckle, make).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*dʰeh₁-

Gloss

put, place, set, do, suck, suckle, make

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

哺

Emoji

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