affiliate
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[edit] Etymology
Late Latin adfiliare, affiliare (“‘to adopt as son’”); ad + filius (“‘son’”): compare French affilier.
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Noun:
- (WEAE) IPA: /ʌˈfɪl.i.et/
- Audio (US)help, file
Verb
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affiliate (plural affiliates)
- Someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things.
- The local channel was an affiliate of a national network.
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to affiliate (third-person singular simple present affiliates, present participle affiliating, simple past and past participle affiliated)
- (transitive) To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
- (transitive) To fix the paternity of; — said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.
- (transitive) To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
- (intransitive) To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; — followed by to or with.
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To adopt
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To fix the paternity of
To connect in the way of descent
[edit] Italian
[edit] Verb
affiliate
- Second-person plural present subjunctive of affilare.
- Second-person plural present tense of affiliare.
- Second-person plural imperative of affiliare.
- Second-person plural present subjunctive of affiliare.
- Feminine plural of affiliato.

