nounplural noun famuli/ˈfamjʊlʌɪ/ /ˈfamjʊliː/

• An assistant or servant, especially one working for a magician or scholar.

  ‘Gershom Scholem has pointed out that the Golem himself functions as a Famulus (servant), a tradition arising with 15th- or 16-century Jewish folktales.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘A famulus or famula was a household servant or hand-maid, slave or free. In some ways they were considered members of the larger family.’

  Synonyms

  attendant, retainer