FAMILIAとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /fəˈmɪlɪə/
• Homophone: familiar (some non-rhotic accents)

名詞

familia (plural familiae)

1. (historical) A household or religious community under one head, regarded as a unit.
   • 2007, Ada I. Engebrigtsen, Exploring Gypsiness, page 117:

     Joska's elder brother Phuro was, however, seen as the leader of his familia. As one of the oldest males in the hamlet, with a familia that consisted of sons, bora and sons-in-law, Phuro's position as head of his familia was given by his age and by his authority as father.

2. (Roman law) The paterfamilias, his legitimate descendants and their wives, all persons adopted into his family and their wives, and all slaves belonging to the household.

語源

From Proto-Italic *fameljā (“of the house → household”), from earlier *θameljā.

In view of the semantic shift illustrated in the cognates, famulus (“servant, slave”) (with Oscan 𐌚𐌀𐌌𐌄𐌋 (famel, “servile”)) is probably a backformation from it and not the other way around. From Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁-m-eló-m (“fundament”), from *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”). Cognate with Sanskrit धामन् (dhāman, “order; dwelling-place, temple; family”), Ancient Greek θεμέλιος (themélios, “of the foundation”), θέμις (thémis, “justice, law”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [faˈmɪ.li.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [faˈmiː.li.a]

名詞

familia f (genitive familiae or familiās); first declension

1. a household (all persons subject to the control of one man (whether relations, freedmen or slaves))
2. the slaves of a household, servants
3. a group of slaves stationed in one place; a brigade, gang (used for some purpose)
   1. one's personal retinue
4. a family, kin (a group of people closely related to one another)

   Synonym: domus

   • Vulgate, Genesis 10.32:

     Hae familiae Nōē iū̆xtā populōs et nātiōnēs suās. Ab hīs dīvīsae sunt gentēs in Terrā post dīluvium.

     These are the families of Noah, according to their peoples and tribes. From them split the nations on Earth after the deluge.

5. an intellectual school (e.g., of philosophy)

   Synonym: domus

6. (law) an estate (sometimes distinct from pecūnia and possibly restricted to rēs mancipī)

使用する際の注意点

According to Richard Saller, “[f]amilia was never used to mean ‘father, mother and children’ in our sense of ‘family’ today. It did have a technical, legal usage akin to ‘family’, but in common parlance most often meant ‘slave staff’, exclusive of the master's family.... The usual word for ‘family’ in the classical period was domus, which carried the general sense of ‘household’ including domestic slaves.”

語形変化

First-declension noun.

The Old Latin genitive singular familiās is used in pater familiās and similar expressions with fīlius, māter, and fīlia as the first element.

Holonyms

• gēns

派生語

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派生した語

Borrowings

参照

• “familia” on page 740 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “famulus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 200

Further reading

• “familia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “familia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "familia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “familia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a sect, school of thought: schola, disciplina, familia; secta
    
  • a theatrical company: familia, grex, caterva histrionum
    
  • a band, troupe of gladiators under the management of a lanista: familia gladiatoria (Sest. 64. 134)
    
• “familia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “familia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin