familie

From Dutch familie.

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familie (plural families)

1. family

Borrowed via German Familie from Latin familia (“family, household”), derived from famulus (“servant, slave”).

Displaced native Danish æt (“family, descent”).

• IPA^(key): /faˈmilˀjə/, [fæˈmilˀjə], /fɑˈmilˀjə/, [fɑ̈ˈmilˀjə]

familie c (singular definite familien, plural indefinite familier)

1. family (father, mother and their sons and daughters)
2. family (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
3. family (kin, tribe)
4. (taxonomy) family (rank in a taxonomic classification, above both genus and species; taxon at this rank)

• (father, mother and their sons and daughters): husstand
• (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom): familiemedlemmer, slægtninge, slægt
• (kin, tribe): slægt, æt

• familiemæssig
• familieskab
• stjernefamilie

• → Faroese: familja

• familie on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Borrowed from Latin familia.

• IPA^(key): /faːˈmi.li/

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• Hyphenation: fa‧mi‧lie

familie f (plural families)

1. relatives (extended kin)
2. family (close kin)

   Synonym: gezin

3. (taxonomy) family

   Hypernyms: orde, superfamilie

   Hyponyms: geslacht, onderfamilie

• Afrikaans: familie
• Berbice Creole Dutch: famili
• Negerhollands: familie, famili
• Petjo: fermilie
• → Indonesian: famili
• → Sranan Tongo: famiri
  • → Caribbean Javanese: famiri, pamili, pamiri
  • → Saramaccan: famíí

From German Familie (“family”), from Latin familia (“household, family”), from Proto-Italic *fameljā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁-m-eló-m (“fundament”), from *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”).

Displaced native Norwegian Bokmål ætt (“family, descent”).

familie m (definite singular familien, indefinite plural familier, definite plural familiene)

1. a family (father, mother and their sons and daughters)
2. (biology) family (a principal taxonomic category)

• “familie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin familia, via German Familie.

familie m (definite singular familien, indefinite plural familiar, definite plural familiane)

1. a family (father, mother and their sons and daughters)
2. (biology) family (a principal taxonomic category)

• “familie” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin familia. Compare the inherited doublet femeie.

• IPA^(key): [faˈmi.li.e]

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familie f (plural familii)

1. family

• femeie