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[Lat. familia, domestics, from famulus, a slave; in Oscan, a language formerly spoken in the South of Italy, famel, a slave; Sp. familia; Fr. famille. Probable root obs. Heb. ghamal, labor, toil.] A household establishment; a household, including parents, children, and servants; the collective body of persons who reside under one roof, and under one head, or manager. Those who descend from one common ancestor; a tribe or race; kindred; as, the human fam ily.-Lineage; course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of old family. Among the Romans, familia was applied to all persons in the power of a paterfamilias, as his sons, daughters, grand-children and slaves, but it was also used in a wider sense, including all objects of property, even inanimate, and is rumor, reports, news, or tidings of any sort, whether good or evil. She is represented with a trumpet, either blowing it or holding it in her hand. Famagusta, ( fa - ma - goos'ta ,) a seaport-town of the island of Cyprus, 40 m. E. of Nicosia, Lat. 35° 7′ 40′′ N., Lon. 33° 59′ E. F. is built on the ruins of the ancient Arsinoë , and during the Venetian régime it was one of the richest and most populous towns in the Levant. It is now almost in ruins, with its once fine harbor almost choked up with sand, having declined since its conquest by the Turks in 1571. About 5 m. N.E. are the ruins of Constant i a, occupying the site of the ancient Salamis , now called Eski, or Old Famagusta. Guy de Lusignan was here crowned king of Cyprus in 1191. Pop . Unascertained, and mostly Greeks. Famati'na, a valley of South America, in the Argentine Republic, bounded E. and W. by the mountain ranges of Volasco and Famatina. It 155 miles long by 30 broad, and contains some silver mines,