familie

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch familie.

Pronunciation

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Noun

familie (plural families)

1. family

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈmilˀjə/, , /fɑˈmilˀjə/,

Noun

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)

Inflection

Synonyms

• (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

Derived terms

• familiemæssig
• familieskab
• stjernefamilie

Descendants

• → Faroese: familja

See also

• familie on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

familie

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin familia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑˈmi.li/

• familie

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• Hyphenation: fa‧mi‧lie

Noun

familie f (plural families)

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

   Synonym: gezin

3. (taxonomy) family

   Hypernyms: orde, superfamilie

   Hyponyms: geslacht, onderfamilie

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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”).

Noun

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)

Derived terms

References

• “familie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin familia, via German Familie.

Noun

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)

Derived terms

References

• “familie” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin familia. Compare the inherited doublet femeie.

Pronunciation

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Noun

familie f (plural familii)

1. family

Declension

See also

• femeie