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Definitions: Familial |
FamilialAdjective1. Relating to or having the characteristics of a family; "children of the same familial background"; "familial aggregation". 2. Tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "familial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| FAD | English | Familial Alzheimer's disease | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: FamilialSynonyms: genetic (adj), hereditary (adj), inherited (adj), transmissible (adj), transmitted (adj). (additional references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Familial patterns of melanoma exist. (references) | |
No familial predisposition is apparent. (references) | ||
The two basic types of AD are familial and sporadic. (references) | ||
Business | Korea still observes Confucian ethics based on a strong belonging to a group (whether it is familial, educational, regional, or vocational) and Korean thinking reflects such values. (references) | |
Children | Korea | Information about societal or familial abuse of children is unavailable. (references) |
Cameroon | The degree of familial child abuse was not known but is one of several targeted problems of children's rights organizations. (references) | |
Lesotho | However, familial stress, poverty, the spread of HIV/AIDS, and divorce have led to a rise in child homelessness and abandonment, creating a growing number of street children. (references) | |
Discrimination | Syria | In practice membership in the Ba'th Party or close familial relations with a prominent party member or powerful government official can be important for economic, social, or educational advancement. (references) |
Economic History | Liberia | The judiciary has always been subject to political, social, familial, and financial pressures, and the equal application of justice is not always observed. (references) |
Czech Republic | Millions of Americans have their roots in Bohemia and Moravia, and a large community in the United States has strong cultural and familial ties with the Czech Republic. (references) | |
Human Rights | Mauritania | Some indicted detainees are released before trial without explanation; familial, tribal, or political connections may explain some of these cases. (references) |
Liberia | Although the Constitution provides for an independent judiciary, judges are subjected to political, social, familial, and financial pressures, leading to the corruption of the judiciary. (references) | |
Minorities | Philippines | The national culture, with its emphasis on familial, tribal, and regional loyalties, creates informal barriers whereby access to jobs or resources is provided first to those of one's own family or group. (references) |
Women | China | Social and familial pressure also has grown for women to resume their traditional roles as wives and mothers. (references) |
Micronesia | Such actions were deemed offenses against the family, not just the individuals within them, and were addressed by a complex system of familial sanctions. (references) | |
Jordan | Abused women have the right to file a complaint in court against their spouses for physical abuse but in practice familial and societal pressures discourage them from seeking legal remedies. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Familial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Familial" is used about 261 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 261 | 18,276 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "familial": familial dysplastic nevi ♦ familial hypercholesterolaemia ♦ familial hypercholesterolemia ♦ Familial Mediterranean Fever ♦ Familial Polyposis. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "familial": extra-familial, non-familial. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
familial tremor | 35 |
familial mediterranean fever | 22 |
familial hypercholesterolemia | 20 |
familial adenomatous polyposis | 19 |
familial polyposis | 16 |
dysautonomia familial | 14 |
familial planning | 13 |
familial fever fmf mediterranean | 13 |
budget familial | 9 |
familial | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "familial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | عائلي (family, homelike, homely). (various references) | |
Danish | nephronophthisis juvenilis (juvenile nephronophthisis). (various references) | |
Dutch | familiale ziekte (familial disease), familiale neutropenie (familial neutropenia), familiale incidentie (familial incidence), familiale hypercholesterinemie (familial hypercholesterolaemia, familial hypercholesterolemia), familiaire ziekte (familial disease), familiaire incidentie (familial incidence), familiaire immuniteit (familial immunity, genetic immunity), ziekte van Tay-Sachs (amaurotic familial idiocy, Tay-Sachs disease), syndroom van Hooft (familial hypolipaemia), polyposis coli (familial adenomatous polyposis, familial polyposis), pemphigus benignus (bullous pemphigoid, familial benign chronic pemphigus), parapemphigus (bullous pemphigoid, familial benign chronic pemphigus), gangliocellulaire heredodegeneratieve idiotie (amaurotic familial idiocy), amaurotische familiaire idiotie (amaurotic familial idiocy). (various references) | |
Finnish | familiaalinen hyperkolesterolemia (familial hypercholesterolaemia, familial hypercholesterolemia), peräsuolen ja koolonin polyyppitauti (familial adenomatous polyposis, familial polyposis), hypercholesterolaemia familialis (familial hypercholesterolaemia, familial hypercholesterolemia). (various references) | |
French | familial (family), néphrophtisie juvénile familiale de Fanconi, dégénérescence tubulaire progressive familiale. (various references) | |
German | Fanconi Nephronophthise (juvenile nephronophthisis), familiaris, familiäre juvenile Nephronophthise (juvenile nephronophthisis), familiär (close, familiar, familiarly, family, informal, intimate, Matey), idiopathische parenchymatöse Schrumpfniere (juvenile nephronophthisis). (various references) | |
Greek | κληρονομικό οικογενές σύμπλεγμα (inherited familial cluster), καλοήθης χρονία κληρονομική πέμφιγα (familial benign chronic pemphigus), ασθένεια των Hailey et Hailey (familial benign chronic pemphigus), ορθοκολική πολυποδίαση (familial adenomatous polyposis, familial polyposis), οικογενειακό ιστορικό (familial incidence), οικογενής νόσος (familial disease), οικογενής υπερχοληστερολαιμία (familial hypercholesterolaemia, familial hypercholesterolemia), οικογενής υπολιπιδαιμία (familial hypolipaemia), οικογενής ανοσία (familial immunity, genetic immunity), οικογενής αμαυρωτική ιδιωτεία (amaurotic familial idiocy, Batten disease, neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis), οικογενής αδενωματώδης πολύπωση (familial adenomatous polyposis), θανατηφόρος οικογενής αϋπνία (fatal familial insomnia). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משפחתי (familiar, family, homely, intimate). (various references) | |
Italian | poliposi multipla familiare dell'intestino crasso (familial adenomatous polyposis), poliposi familiare (familial adenomatous polyposis, familial polyposis), penfigo familiare benigno (familial benign chronic pemphigus), neutropenia ad incidenza familiare (familial neutropenia), melanoma familiare (familial melanoma), malattia familiare (familial disease), ipercolesterolemia familiare (familial hypercholesterolaemia, familial hypercholesterolemia), incidenza familiare (familial incidence), immunit familiare (familial immunity, genetic immunity), idiozia amaurotica familiare (amaurotic familial idiocy, Batten disease, neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis), adenomatosi familiare dell'intestino crasso (familial adenomatous polyposis). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 家庭的 (family-oriented). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かていてき (family-oriented). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amilialfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pênfigo crónico benigno familiar (familial benign chronic pemphigus), incidência familiar (familial incidence), imunidade genética (familial immunity, genetic immunity), idiotia amaurótica familiar juvenil (amaurotic familial idiocy), hipolipemia familiar (familial hypolipaemia), doença familiar (familial disease). (various references) | |
Russian | семейный (families'). (various references) | |
Spanish | psicoplasma familiar (familial psychoplasm), poliposis adenomatosa familiar (familial adenomatous polyposis), póliposis familiar (familial adenomatous polyposis, familial polyposis), pénfigo benigno familiar (familial benign chronic pemphigus), neutropenia familiar (familial neutropenia), melanoma familiar (familial melanoma), inmunidad innata (familial immunity, genetic immunity), inmunidad genética (familial immunity, genetic immunity), incidencia familiar (familial incidence), idiocia amaurótica familiar (amaurotic familial idiocy, Batten disease, neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis), hipolipidemia familiar (familial hypolipaemia), hipercolesterolemia familiar (familial hypercholesterolaemia, familial hypercholesterolemia). (various references) | |
Swedish | familje- (domestic). (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวข้องกับครอบครัว, เป็นกรรมพันธุ์. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "familial": interfamilial, nonfamilial. (additional references) | |
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"Familial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aemilian, danilian, Efamolia, Famalicao, familal, famile, familia, familiae, Familiale, familially, familias, famililar, Faneuil, Femgliah, Feminiad, Fetilia, Flaminian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "familial" (pronounced fumi"lyul) |
| 4 | -l y u l | epithelial. |
| 3 | -y u l | congenial, genial, granule, patrimonial, spaniel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-i-i-l-l-m" | |
-2 letters: filial. | |
-3 letters: aalii, flail, ilial, lamia, llama, mafia, maill, milia. | |
-4 letters: alfa, alif, alma, amia, fail, fall, fila, fill, film, flam, ilia, lama, lima, mail, mall, mill. | |
-5 letters: aal, ail, aim, ala, all, ama, ami, fil, ill, lam, mil. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-f-i-i-l-l-m" | |
+2 letters: familiarly. | |
+3 letters: nonfamilial. | |
+4 letters: flammability, magnifically, unfamiliarly. | |
+5 letters: gallimaufries, interfamilial, maxillofacial, microfilarial, sulfanilamide, ultrafamiliar. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 6D 69 6C 69 61 6C |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- -- .. .-.. .. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01101101 01101001 01101100 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a m i l i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 006D 0069 006C 0069 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4067797578756778 |
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