famiglia

Inherited from Latin familia (“servants, domestic staff, household”).

• IPA^(key): /faˈmiʎ.ʎa/

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• Rhymes: -iʎʎa
• Hyphenation: fa‧mì‧glia
• (Romanesco) IPA^(key): /faˈmia̯/

famiglia f (plural famiglie, diminutive famigliòla or (literary) famigliuòla or (rare) famiglìna, augmentative famiglióna, pejorative famigliàccia, endearing-derogatory famigliùccia)

1. family
2. household
3. (archaic) domestic staff, servants

   vino da famiglia ― wine of inferior quality (literally, “wine for the servants”)

• famiglio

• familiare, famigliare
• familismo

• → Cimbrian: famildja
• → Maltese: familja
• → Mòcheno: familia
• → Ottoman Turkish: فاملیا
  • Turkish: familya
  • → Armenian: ֆամիլյա (familya)

• classe
• genere

Family members in Italian:

Subject's ancestors

• quadrisavolo/bisarcavolo ⚭ quadrisavola/bisarcavola (thrice great-grandparents)
  • trisavolo/trisnonno/arcavolo ⚭ trisavola/trisnonna/arcavola (great-great-grandparents)
    • bisnonno ⚭ bisnonna (great-grandparents)
      • nonno (“grandfather”) ⚭ nonna (“grandparent”) (grandparents)
        • padre/papà (“father”) ⚭ madre/mamma (“mother”) (genitori (“parents”)) or patrigno (“foster father, step-father”) ⚭ matrigna (“foster mother, step-mother”)
          • sorella (“sister”) or fratello (“brother”), married to cognato/cognata (“sibling-in-law”)
            • nipote (“nephew, niece”)
          • sorellastra (“foster sister, step-sister”) or fratellastro (“foster brother, step-brother”)
          • Subject
        • zio or zia (uncle/aunt)
          • cugino or cugina (cousin)
      • prozio or prozia (great-uncle/great-aunt)
        • cugino/a di secondo grado (“third cousin, literally "second degree cousin"”)

Subject's spouse's ancestors

• prosuocero (“grandfather-in-law”) ⚭ prosuocera (“grandmother-in-law”)
  • suocero (“father-in-law”) ⚭ suocera (“mother-in-law”)
    • cognato (“brother-in-law”) or cognata (“sister-in-law”), married to concognato/concognata
    • coniuge (“spouse”): if male, marito (“husband”); if female, moglie (“wife”)

Subject's offspring

• Subject ⚭ coniuge (“spouse”)
  • figlio (“son”) ⚭ nuora (“daughter-in-law”) or figlia (“daughter”) ⚭ genero (“son-in-law”); as a note, the parents of a genero/nuora are the consuocero (“co-father-in-law”) and consuocera (“co-mother-in-law”)
    • nipote (“grandson, granddaughter”) ⚭ progenero/pronuora
      • bisnipote (“great-grandchild”)
        • trisnipote, pronipote (“great-great-grandchild”)

Generic words

• famiglia (“family”)
• parente (“relative (usually through blood, usually extended to relative's own spouses)”)
• affine (“spouse's relative”)
• antenato (“ancestor”)
• posteri (“descendants”)
• fidanzato/fidanzata (originally betrothed, now boy-/girlfriend)
• ex (“formerly”), ellipsis of ex-fidanzato, ex-fidanzata, ex-marito, ex-moglie.
• padrino or madrina (godfather/godmother)
• figlioccio/figlioccia (godchild)
• figliastro/figliastra (step-child, foster child)
• germano (adjective: used of siblings when related both through mother and father)
• uterino (“uterine, womb-related”) (adjective: used of siblings when related only through the mother)
• consanguineo (“consanguineous, same-bloodied”) (adjective: used of siblings when related only through the father)
• materno (“motherly”) (adjective: used of any ancestor, uncle or cousin to specify the relation passing through the subject's mother)
• paterno (“fatherly”) (adjective: used of any ancestor, uncle or cousin to specify the relation passing through the subject's father)
• adottivo (“adopted”) (adjective: anywhere the relationship would be normally by blood, but instead passes through an adoption at any given step)

From Latin familia.

famiglia f (plural famiglias)

1. family