família

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See also: familia, Familia, famìlia, and familią

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin familia.

Pronunciation

Noun

família f (plural famílies)

  1. family

Further reading

Galician

Noun

família f (plural famílias, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of familia

Further reading

  • “família” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: fa‧mí‧lia
  • Rhymes: -jɒ

Noun

família (plural famíliák)

  1. (literary or humorous) family
    Synonym: család

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative família famíliák
accusative famíliát famíliákat
dative famíliának famíliáknak
instrumental famíliával famíliákkal
causal-final famíliáért famíliákért
translative famíliává famíliákká
terminative famíliáig famíliákig
essive-formal famíliaként famíliákként
essive-modal — —
inessive famíliában famíliákban
superessive famílián famíliákon
adessive famíliánál famíliáknál
illative famíliába famíliákba
sublative famíliára famíliákra
allative famíliához famíliákhoz
elative famíliából famíliákból
delative famíliáról famíliákról
ablative famíliától famíliáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		famíliáé famíliáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		famíliáéi famíliákéi
Possessive forms of família
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. famíliám famíliáim
2nd person sing. famíliád famíliáid
3rd person sing. famíliája famíliái
1st person plural famíliánk famíliáink
2nd person plural famíliátok famíliáitok
3rd person plural famíliájuk famíliáik

Further reading

  • família in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • família in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin familia.

Noun

família f (plural famílias) (Languedoc)

  1. family

Further reading

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin familia (“household, family”).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /faˈmi.li.ɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /faˈmi.ljɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /faˈmi.li.a/ , (faster pronunciation) /faˈmi.lja/

Noun

família f (plural famílias)

  1. family; nuclear family (a father, mother and their sons and daughters)
  2. family; bloodline; kin
    Synonym: linhagem
  3. (taxonomy) family
  4. (linguistics) language family
  5. things which are classed together
    Synonym: agrupamento
  6. a Mafia family

Derived terms

References

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