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familial

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8 lettersPronunciation /fəˈmɪljəl/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aafiillmStarts with FEnds with L0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. occurring among members of a family usually by heredity

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • “Mark had to leave work due to familial obligations.”
  • “Having milky latex is a familial characteristic of Apocynaceae.”
  • “"Grandfather", "mother", and "brother" are some English familial terms.”

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