A rank in a taxonomic classification, above both genus and species.(noun)
A taxon at this rank.(noun)
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Use "familia" in a sentence
"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."