familiar Copy link Outline 1. fămĭliāris, e (in nearly all the senses of the English word2. nōtus (well known3. rĕmissus (without effort, free and easy) • familiar: 1. fămĭliāris, e (in nearly all the senses of the English word: usu. with dat.): we see that Aemilius was f. with C. Luscinus, videmus Aemilium C. Luscino f. fuisse, Cic.: f. friends, f. amici, Plin.: he is more f. to us on account of the number of his writings, familiarior nobis propter scriptorum multitudinem est, Cic.: to engage in f. conversation, familiares conferre sermones, Cic.: f. letters, f. epistolae, Quint. 2. nōtus (well known: q. v.): a f. haunt, sedes n., Hor.: Virg. 3. rĕmissus (without effort, free and easy): to adopt a more f. style, remissiore uti genere dicendi, Cic. Sext. 54, 115. Phr.: to grow f. with, assuesco: v. accustomed, to become: to be on f. terms with one, aliquo familiariter uti; cum aliquo familiariter vivere, Cic.: to be on very f. terms with one, cum aliquo familiarissime vivere; aliquo valde familiariter uti, multum uti, Cic.: not to be at all f. with, aliquo minimum (parum, minus) uti, Cato: to be too f. with any one (of slaves with their mistress), licentius, liberius, familiarius cum domina vivere, Cic. Coel. 23, 57: v. intimate, WELL KNOWN.