familial

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/fəˈmɪljəl/

adjective

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adjective
Related to a family or shared among family members.
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adjective
Extra detail
Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of family.

Examples

We celebrated Christmas with a familial lunch.
Mark had to leave work due to familial obligations.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 4
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

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Extra meanings

Of or pertaining to a human family.
Of or pertaining to any grouping of things referred to as a family.

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"Grandfather", "mother", and "brother" are some English familial terms.
Having milky latex is a familial characteristic of Apocynaceae.
fatal familial insomnia

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Asylums and the Care of the Insane.—Dr. Wille, the director of the recently opened asylum for the Canton of Zurich, at Rheinau, delivered a lecture on this subject to the Swiss Association of Alienists. […] In discussing the mode of providing for the incurable, he refers to the familial system and the agricultural colony. […] Another kind of familial treatment is when under similar circumstances improved patients are discharged from an establishment, but after their discharge they are still more or less looked after in connection with the establishment, and receive superintendence by the authorities, or by organised associations.
1870 April, John Sibbald, “German Psychological Literature”, in Henry Maudsley, John Sibbald, editors, The Journal of Mental Science, volume XVI, number 73 (New Series, number 37), London: Published by authority of the Medico-Psychological Association; J[ohn] & A[ugustus] Churchill, New Burlington Street, published 1871, →OCLC, part III (Quarterly Report on the Progress of Psychological Medicine), page 104
The Aztec artists strove with rare consistency to depict the gods as shocking. Though anthropomorphically conceived, however, the gods are still not presented to us as comprehensible. They are buried under a plethora of symbols and rendered inanimate by severe and rigid stylization. We are not asked to reply to the majesty of Huitzilopochtli, the sexuality of Tlazolteotl, the largess of Tlaloc, or the familial warmth of Xiuhteuctli. Rather we are placed in front of the grotesque, the absurd, the impossible, even the disgusting, and through these means we are asked to appreciate the nature of the gods.
1979, Burr Cartwright Brundage, “The Quality of the Numinous”, in The Fifth Sun: Aztec Gods, Aztec World (Texas Pan American Series), 1st paperback edition, Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, published 1983, →ISBN, page 64
In part [Antonio] Conte pulled this off because his manner and his own playing record demand respect. But also he brought back the fun, encouraging a familial atmosphere with barbecues, bottles of wine handed out, and bonding sessions with players and club staff.
2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2017
As emphasized previously, any particular character varies enormously from group to group in its taxonomic value, and it is quite impossible to predict this value in a group in which that character has not been previously investigated. Stamen number, for example, can be a familial, generic or specific character, or vary greatly within one taxon. The same is true of dioecism, equally so in the bryophytes and flowering plants.
1991, Clive A[nthony] Stace, “Structural Information”, in Plant Taxonomy and Biosystematics, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 2000, →ISBN, section 2 (Sources of Taxonomic Information), page 83
Cerebral CMs [cavernous malformations] are, for the majority of cases, sporadic lesions. However, familial incidences have been documented for quite some time. In 1928, Kufs reported two cases: an 81-year-old man who presented with "multiple intercranial nodular telangiectases," and his daughter, suspected of harboring a lesion in the pons.
1993, Frank P. K. Hsu, Daniele Rigamonti, Stephen L. Huhn, “Epidemiology of Cavernous Malformations”, in Issam A. Awad, Daniel L. Barrow, editors, Cavernous Malformations, Park Ridge, Ill.: American Association of Neurological Surgeons, →ISBN, page 15, column 2

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Origin

adjective

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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The strong blank— bond kept them united through difficult times.

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adjective

The strong blank bond kept them united through difficult times.