10- Vocab list: family | 1MonthOfLangs
la famiglia - family
il genitore - parent (la genitrice -> mother, feminine parent) la madre, la mamma - mother, mom il padre, il papà - father, dad la matrigna - stepmother il patrigno - stepfather il figlio - son la figlia - daughter il figliastro - stepson la figliastra - stepdaughter il fratello - brother la sorella - sister il fratellastro - half/step-brother la sorellastra - half/step-sister il suocero - father-in-law la suocera - mother-in-law il genero - son-in-law la nuora - daughter-in-law il cognato - brother-in-law la cognata - sister-in-law il nonno - grandfather la nonna - grandmother il bisnonno, il bisavolo - great-grandfather la bisnonna, la bisavola - great-grandmother il trisnonno, il trisavolo - great-great grandfather la trisnonna, la trisavola - great-great grandmother la zia - aunt lo zio - uncle la prozia - great-aunt il prozio - great-uncle il cugino, la cugina - cousin il nipote, la nipote* - nephew / grandson, niece / granddaughter *(yes, we have the same word for both the situations)
-> famigliare, familiare adjective and noun meanings: - domestic, familial (a.) (e.g. un ambiente familiare = a familial environment) - family, good for a family (a.) (e.g. una confezione familiare = a family size pack) - familiar, well-acquainted (a.) (e.g. una faccia famigliare = a familiar face) - informal, friendly (a.) (e.g. un ristorante famigliare = an informal restaurant) - station wagon car (n.) - relative, family member (n.) (e.g. un mio famigliare = one of my relatives)
-> familiare originates (and is used more often) from the Latin familiarem ; famigliare originates from the word “famiglia” and is considered more popular: the versions of these kinds of words (there are more that you can use in two different ways) that originate from Latin, are considered more “erudite” and are the ones that are usually preferred. Neither of them is wrong btw (so you can use famigliare as well anyway).
[it’s so sad that some of these nouns -half/step-bro/sis, step-parent, stepchild,...- have the negative acception whithin them, as in fairytales]
