familial

Meaning

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to a human family.
• Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of family.
• Of or pertaining to any grouping of things referred to as a family.
• Inherited.

Origin

• 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, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁-m-eló-, from *dʰeh₁-) + French -al ("suffix forming adjectives") (from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Indo-European *-li-). familiar.