Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 674.familia on page 674
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familia household
familia is a Latin Noun that primarily means household.
Definitions for familia
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
household, family
English derivatives:
familial familiar familiarity familiarize
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
All persons subject to the control of one man, whether relations, freedmen, or slaves, a household. (b) PATER, MATER, FILIVS, FILIA ~as or ~ae, the master, mistress, son, or daughter of a household.
- 2
The slaves of a household, servants.
- 3
A group of servants domiciled in one place; esp. a gang used for a particular purpose. (b) one's personal servants, retinue.
Sentences with familia
Latin to English
Vendat oleum, si pretium habeat, vinum, frumentum quod supersit vendat; boves, vetulos armenta delicula, oves deliculas, lanam, pelles, plostrum vetus, ferramenta vetera, servum senem, servum morbosum, et siquid aliut supersit vendat. Patrem familias vendacem, non emacem esse oportet. (Id., II,7)Compare Sell the oil, if it fetches a good price, sell whatever excess there be of wine and grain; sell off the worn-out oxen, defective cattle, defective sheep, wool, hides, the old wagon, old tools, the aged slave, the sickly slave, and all else that is of no use. The proprietor of an estate should be eager to sell, not to buy.
Hic sum idem familia, Quirites, qui plebs ad curulis magistratus iter obsepio.Compare This is the same family, Romans, which has closed the road to the curule offices against the people.
Respondeo sui, familia funestus Q. Fabius frater mors, laurea non accipio.Compare He answered that he would not accept the laurel, while his family were in mourning of the death of his brother, Q. Fabius.
Declension table for familia
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | familia | familiae |
| Gen. | familiās / -ae | familiārum |
| Dat. | familiae | familiīs |
| Acc. | familiam | familiās |
| Abl. | familiā | familiīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 125.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 674.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 126.
Bibliography
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "familia, familiae (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 25, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/familia-familiae.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 125.familia, familiae on page 125
