Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Related to family”8 letters
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