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Where does the word family originate from?

April 26, 2017family originate word

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Where does the word family originate from?

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The word family first referred to the servants of a household and then to both the servants and the descendants of a common ancestor. It comes from the Latin word familia, meaning ‘household; household servants’, which came from another Latin term famulus, or ‘servant’.