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familiar
English
Etymology
From Latin famili?ris (“pertaining to servants; pertaining to the household”). Doublet of familial. Displaced native Old English h?wc?þ.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /f??m?l.i.?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /f??m?l.j?/, /f??m?l.i.?/, /f??m?l.j?/
- (US)
Adjective
familiar (comparative more familiar, superlative most familiar)
- Known to one, or generally known; commonplace.
- Acquainted.
- Intimate or friendly.
- Inappropriately intimate or friendly.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Camden to this entry?)
- Of or pertaining to a family; familial.
- 1822, Lord Byron, Werner
- familiar feuds
- 1822, Lord Byron, Werner
Synonyms
- (acquainted): acquainted
- (intimate, friendly): close, friendly, intimate, personal
- (inappropriately intimate or friendly): cheeky, fresh, impudent
Antonyms
- (known to one): unfamiliar, unknown
- (acquainted): unacquainted
- (intimate): cold, cool, distant, impersonal, standoffish, unfriendly
Derived terms
- overfamiliar
- familiarity
- familiarly
Related terms
- familial
Translations
Noun
familiar (plural familiars)
- (witchcraft) An attendant spirit, often in animal or demon form.
- (obsolete) A member of one's family or household.
- A member of a pope's or bishop's household.
- (obsolete) A close friend.
- (historical) The officer of the Inquisition who arrested suspected people.
Synonyms
- nigget
Translations
See also
- daimon (a tutelary spirit that guides a person)
Further reading
- Familiar in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin famili?ris.
Adjective
familiar (masculine and feminine plural familiars)
- familiar
Derived terms
- familiaritzar
- familiarment
- unifamiliar
Related terms
- familiaritat
Noun
familiar m or f (plural familiars)
- relative
Related terms
- família
Further reading
- “familiar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “familiar” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “familiar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “familiar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
Etymology
From Latin famili?ris.
Adjective
familiar m or f (plural familiares)
- of family
- close, familiar
- daily, plain
Noun
familiar m (plural familiares)
- relative
Synonyms
- parente
- achegado
Related terms
- familia
- familiaridade
- familiarizar
Further reading
- “familiar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
familiar m
- indefinite plural of familie
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin famili?ris.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /f?.mi.?lja?/
Adjective
familiar m or f (plural familiares, comparable)
- familiar (known to one)
- of or relating to a family
Derived terms
- familiarmente
Related terms
- familiaridade
Noun
familiar m (plural familiares)
- (usually in the plural) relative (person in the same family)
- familiar (attendant spirit)
- Synonym: espírito familiar
Related terms
- família
Further reading
- “familiar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
Etymology
From French familier, from Latin familiaris.
Adjective
familiar m or n (feminine singular familiar?, masculine plural familiari, feminine and neuter plural familiare)
- familiar
Declension
Related terms
- familiaritate
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin famili?ris.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fami?lja?/, [fa.mi?lja?]
Adjective
familiar (plural familiares)
- familial, family
- close, familiar
- daily, plain
Derived terms
Noun
familiar m (plural familiares)
- relative, family member
- Synonym: miembro de la familia, pariente
Related terms
- familia
- familiaridad
- familiarizar
Further reading
- “familiar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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demotic
English
Etymology
First attested in 1822, from Ancient Greek ????????? (d?motikós, “common”), from ??????? (d?mót?s, “commoner”), from ????? (dêmos, “the common people”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?.?m?.t?k/
- (US) IPA(key): /d?.m?.t?k/
Adjective
demotic (not comparable)
- Of or for the common people.
- Synonyms: colloquial, informal, popular, vernacular
- Antonym: formal
- Of, relating to, or written in the ancient Egyptian script that developed from Lower Egyptian hieratic writing starting from around 650 B.C.E. and was chiefly used to write the Demotic phase of the Egyptian language, with simplified and cursive characters that no longer corresponded directly to their hieroglyphic precursors.
- Synonym: enchorial
- Coordinate term: abnormal hieratic
- Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
Derived terms
- demoticist
Related terms
- Demotic Greek
- demotist
Translations
Noun
demotic (plural demotics)
- (linguistics) Language as spoken or written by the common people.
- 2010, John C. Wells, accents map
- Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like.
- 2010, John C. Wells, accents map
Translations
Further reading
- demotic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “demotic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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