adoptee

See also: adoptée

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from French adoptée, feminine past participle of adopter meaning "to adopt", equivalent to adopt +‎ -ee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˌdɒpˈtiː/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /əˌdɑpˈti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

adoptee (plural adoptees)

1. An adopted son or daughter.
2. A person who was adopted as a child.

   An adult Chinese female adoptee has found her biological parents.

3. Synonym of adopter.

Derived terms

• nonadoptee

Translations

adopted son or daughter

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (adopted son) 養子 / 养子 (zh) (yǎngzǐ), (adopted daughter) 養女 / 养女 (zh) (yǎngnǚ), (adoptee) 被收養人 / 被收养人 (bèishōuyǎngrén)

• Finnish: ottolapsi (fi), adoptiolapsi (fi)
• French: adopté (fr) m, adoptée (fr) f
• German: Adoptierter m, Adoptierte f
• Indonesian: anak angkat (id)
• Irish: uchtaí m
• Japanese: 養子 (ja) m (ようし, yōshi), 養女 (ja) f (yōjo) (daughter)
• Korean: 입양아 (ibyang'a)
• Russian: приёмный ребёнок m (prijómnyj rebjónok), приёмыш (ru) m (prijómyš)

person who was adopted as a child

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 被收養人 / 被收养人 (bèishōuyǎngrén)

• Finnish: ottolapsi (fi), adoptiolapsi (fi)
• French: adopté (fr) m, adoptée (fr) f
• Georgian: ნაშვილები (našvilebi), ნაშვილები შვილი (našvilebi švili), ნაშვილები ბავშვი (našvilebi bavšvi), შვილობილი (švilobili), აყვანილი (aq̇vanili), აყვანილი ბავშვი (aq̇vanili bavšvi), შვილად აყვანილი (švilad aq̇vanili), შვილად აყვანილი ბავშვი (švilad aq̇vanili bavšvi)
• German: Adoptierter m, Adoptierte f
• Indonesian: anak angkat (id)
• Irish: uchtaí m
• Japanese: 養子 (ja) m (ようし, yōshi), 養女 (ja) f (yōjo) (daughter)
• Korean: 입양아 (ibyang'a)
• Latin: adoptator
• Russian: приёмный ребёнок m (prijómnyj rebjónok), приёмыш (ru) m (prijómyš)

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Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: осиновен (bg) (osinoven)
• Esperanto: adoptito
• Hebrew: מאומץ m (me'umatz), מאומצת f (me'umetzet')
• Italian: adottato (it) m, adottata (it) f, adottati (it) pl, adottate (it) f pl
• Latin: adoptatus m, adoptata f
• Portuguese: adoptado m, adoptada m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: посвојче n, нахранче n, нахранко m, нахранка f, усвојеник m, усвојеница f

• Spanish: adoptado (es) m, adoptada (es) f
• Volapük: (♂♀) daoptäb, (♂) hidaoptäb, (♀) jidaoptäb
• Zazaki: depıtae m, depıtao f

See also

• foster child