familial.
Of or pertaining to a human family.
Meaning & usage
Of or pertaining to a human family.
Mark had to leave work due to familial obligations.
Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of family.
Having milky latex is a familial characteristic of Apocynaceae.
Of or pertaining to any grouping of things referred to as a family.
"Grandfather", "mother", and "brother" are some English familial terms.
Inherited.
fatal familial insomnia
Where this word comes from
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.
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