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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• familiar:
      1. 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. 2. nōtus (well known: q. v.): a f. haunt, sedes n., Hor.: Virg.
      3. 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.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• FAMILIAR
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  • Pertaining to a family; domestic, familiaris: domesticus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) domesticus ac familiaris.
  • Intimate, familiaris: domesticus: intimus (SYN. in INTIMATE). Anybody’s familiar friend, alicujus or alicui familiaris: familiaris amicus (Plin.): a mast familiar friend, familiarissimus (alicujus): qui est ex alicujus domesticis atque intimis familiaribus (Cic.). [Vid: INTIMATE.]
  • Intimately known, well-acquainted, familiaris (e.g., hunc, qui familiarior nobis... est. Demosthenem, Cic.; vox auribus meis familiaris, Petronius): bene notus (well-known). ☞ To translate “with which we are familiar,” say qui nobis est familiaris, bene notus, etc.: to be familiar with anything, aliquid mihi familiare or bene notum est: familiariter novi aliquid (Quint.). [Vid: ACQUAINTED.]
  • Affable, intimate (in manner) with those beneath us, communis (e.g., communis infimis, par principibus, Nep.). [Vid: AFFABLE.] To be familiar with anybody, familiariter loqui cum aliquo (Cic.): familiarius vivere cum aliquo (with reference to the terms on which one lives). [Vid: AFFABLE.]
  • Simple, not elevated, etc., with reference to style, ad sensum popularem vulgaremque or ad commune judicium popularemque intelligentiam accommodatus (popular; ☞ not popularis or familiaris in this sense, though familiaris interpretatio has been commonly used, and lately even by Orelli): familiariter scriptus (in the style of a friend writing naturally and confidentially to a friend; Cic.).
  • A familiar spirit, *umbra, quae alicui adest: genius alicujus, or (after Servius’s definition) naturalis deus alicujus.
2. subst. Vid: “FAMILIAR friend” and INTIMATE.