different between hereditary vs familial

English

Etymology

From Latin hereditarius, from hereditas 'inheritance', from heres 'heir'

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h????d?t(?)?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /h????d??t??i/
• Hyphenation: he?red?i?ta?ry

Adjective

hereditary (comparative more hereditary, superlative most hereditary)

1. Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
2. Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.

   Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.

3. Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.

   hereditary rulers

4. Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes

   Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.

5. (mathematics) Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.

Synonyms

• inhereditary

Antonyms

• nonhereditary

Derived terms

Related terms

• see heir

Translations

Noun

hereditary (plural hereditaries)

1. A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.

See also

• congenital

Anagrams

• erythraeid

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