different between acquaintance vs familial

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman aquaintaunce, aqueintance, Old French acointance (“friendship, familiarity”), from Old French acointer (“to acquaint”). Compare French accointance.

Morphologically acquaint +? -ance.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??kwe?nt?ns/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??kwe?n.t?ns/

Noun

acquaintance (countable and uncountable, plural acquaintances)

1. (uncountable) A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship. [from 12th c.]

   I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.

   • 1799, William Jones (translator), Hito'pade'sa, in The Works, Volume 6, page 22:

     Contract no friend?hip, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man : he re?embles a coal, which when hot burneth the hand, and when cold blacketh it.

2. (countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. [from 14th c.]
3. (uncountable) Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord). [from 15th c.]
   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 230:

     Their mother […] was busy in the mean time in keeping up her connections, as she termed a numerous acquaintance, lest her girls should want a proper introduction into the great world.

4. Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.). [from 16th c.]

Usage notes

• Synonym notes: The words acquaintance, familiarity, and intimacy now mark different degrees of closeness in social intercourse. Acquaintance arises from occasional intercourse or interaction; as, "our acquaintance has been a brief one". We can speak of a slight or an intimate acquaintance. Familiarity is the result of continued acquaintance. It springs from persons being frequently together, so as to wear off all restraint and reserve; as, "the familiarity of old companions". Intimacy is the result of close connection, and the freest interchange of thought; as, "the intimacy of established friendship".

Synonyms

• familiarity, fellowship, intimacy, knowledge
• See also Thesaurus:acquaintance

Derived terms

• nodding acquaintance
• renew acquaintances

Related terms

• acquaint

Translations

References

• acquaintance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• acquaintance at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

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 (“servant; slave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *d?h?-m-eló-, from *d?eh?- (“to do, place, put”)) + French -al (“suffix forming adjectives”) (from Latin -?lis, from Proto-Indo-European *-li-). Doublet of familiar.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /f??m?lj?l/
• Hyphenation: fa?mil?ial or fa?mi?li?al

Adjective

familial (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a human family.
2. (taxonomy) Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of family.

3. Of or pertaining to any grouping of things referred to as a family.
4. (pathology) Inherited.

Derived terms

Related terms

• familiar
• familiarity
• familiarly
• family

Translations

Further reading

• familial (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From the Latin familia suffixed with -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.mi.ljal/

Adjective

familial (feminine singular familiale, masculine plural familiaux, feminine plural familiales)

1. familial, relating to a family

Derived terms

• allocation familiale

Related terms

• famille
• familiaire

Further reading

• “familial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Adjective

familial m or f (plural familiais, comparable)

1. familial (relating to families)

   Synonym: familiar

Related terms

• família

Romanian

Etymology

From French familial.

Adjective

familial m or n (feminine singular familial?, masculine plural familiali, feminine and neuter plural familiale)

1. familial

Declension