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单词 familia
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Definition of familia in English:

familia

nounPlural familiae fəˈmɪlɪəfəˈmilyə
historical
  • A household or religious community under one head, regarded as a unit.

    they expelled him and his household familia from the place
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As we have seen, leadership of the religious familia derived from blood hierarchies and/or dependency and required no external adjudication.
    • Not all of his fellow believers enjoyed this advantage, for many of them were slaves in the great familiae or households of the neighborhood.
    • A vast social distance separated the institutionalized clergy from their familia, the dependant servants, and peasants who enabled the members of the community to devote themselves to their extensive duties of prayer.
    • The Norman system was coloured by Frankish practice and was still firmly entrenched in the familia - the lord's hearth.

Origin

Latin.

 
 

Definition of familia in US English:

familia

nounfəˈmilyə
historical
  • A household or religious community under one head, regarded as a unit.

    they expelled him and his household familia from the place
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A vast social distance separated the institutionalized clergy from their familia, the dependant servants, and peasants who enabled the members of the community to devote themselves to their extensive duties of prayer.
    • The Norman system was coloured by Frankish practice and was still firmly entrenched in the familia - the lord's hearth.
    • Not all of his fellow believers enjoyed this advantage, for many of them were slaves in the great familiae or households of the neighborhood.
    • As we have seen, leadership of the religious familia derived from blood hierarchies and/or dependency and required no external adjudication.

Origin

Latin.

 
 
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