ファミリア

also: ファミリアー

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 50,000

Meanings

noun

familiar; attendant spirit or creature

A katakana noun corresponding to the fantasy or occult sense of 'familiar': a spirit, animal, or creature that serves a magician, witch, or similar character. It is not the ordinary Japanese way to say that a person or thing is familiar or well-known.

魔ま法ほう使つかいは黒くろ猫ねこのファミリアを連つれていた。
The wizard had a black-cat familiar with him.
このゲームでは、ファミリアを召しょう喚かんして一いっ緒しょに戦たたかわせる。
In this game, you summon familiars and have them fight alongside you.

Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉がファミリアを召しょう喚かんするfor someone to summon a familiar
魔ま法ほう使つかいは黒くろ猫ねこのファミリアを召しょう喚かんした。
The wizard summoned a black cat as his familiar.
〈人ひと〉がファミリアと契けい約やくするfor someone to make a pact with a familiar
彼かの女じょは森もりの妖よう精せいとファミリアの契けい約やくを結むすんだ。
She formed a pact with a forest fairy as her familiar.

Related words

使つかい魔ま
使い魔 is the traditional Japanese term for a witch's or magician's familiar, while ファミリア is a katakana loanword used mainly in fantasy and game contexts for the same idea.
眷けん属ぞく
眷属 refers more broadly to followers or subordinate beings serving a master, often in religious or formal fantasy settings, whereas ファミリア specifically denotes a magical creature bound to a spellcaster.

Written forms

ファミリアUsage100%
Main katakana form given; the high priority suggests this is the more established spelling.
ファミリアー
Long-vowel variant given; less common than ファミリア.

Etymology

Only katakana forms are given; no language-of-origin data is specified. The spelling is a foreign-word-style katakana form corresponding to the gloss 'familiar'; the exact borrowing route is not specified.