famulus

From Latin famulus (“servant”).

famulus (plural famuli)

1. A close attendant or assistant, especially of a magician or occult scholar.

• familiar (noun)

• Umlaufs

• famul

For Proto-Italic *famelos (“slave”) (whence Oscan 𐌚𐌀𐌌𐌄𐌋 (famel, “slave”)); probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”). Probably as a backformation from the predecessor of familia (see there for details).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.mu.lus/, [ˈfämʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.mu.lus/, [ˈfäːmulus]

famulus m (genitive famulī, feminine famula); second declension

1. a servant, slave

Second-declension noun.

famulus (feminine famula, neuter famulum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (figurative) serving, servile

First/second-declension adjective.

• famulanter
• famulāris
• famulitās
• famulitium
• famulor

• familia
• familiāris
• familiāritās
• familiāricus

• → Albanian: famull
• → English: famulus
• → German: Famulus
• → Italian: famulo
• → Portuguese: fâmulo
• → Russian: фа́мулус (fámulus)
• → Spanish: fámulo
• → Svan: ფა̈მლი (pämli), ფამლი (pamli)

• (noun) “famulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• (adjective) “famulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “famulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• famulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette