Home › Words › F › familiafamilia/fəˈmɪlɪə/familia · name — A surname.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).familia is pronounced /fəˈmɪlɪə/.EtymologyLearned borrowing from Latin familia (“family”). Doublet of family.nameA surname.nounA household or religious community under one head, regarded as a unit.The paterfamilias, his legitimate descendants and their wives, all persons adopted into his family and their wives, and all slaves belonging to the household.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).