familial

Meaning

1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to a human family.
2. (not-comparable) Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of family.
3. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to any grouping of things referred to as a family.
4. (not-comparable) Inherited.

Synonyms

domestic

hereditary

inherited

genetic

family

👪

transmissible

transmitted

family-oriented

familiar

intimate

clannish

Translations

familial

👪

familiar

familiare

👪

familiar

familiär

inherente

οικογενειακός

génétique

héréditaire

familial

genético

hereditario

aileden geçmiş

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fəˈmɪljəl/

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.