Definition of "familia" [familia]

• A rank in a taxonomic classification, above both genus and species. (noun)
• A taxon at this rank. (noun)

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• "In the years I have grown and healed from the violence I suffered in the name of familia, my view of being a Latina has evolved."
• "The life of the familia was a realisation of the present and its needs and perils, without the stimulus to take much thought about the past, or indeed about the future; for it, sufficient for the day was the evil thereof; for what had been and what was to come it could look to the gens to which it owed its existence."
• "All such crimes, serious or petty, as are now tried and disposed of in our criminal courts, were then, if committed by a slave, punishable only by the master; and in the majority of cases, if the familia were a large one, they probably never reached his ears."