adoption

See also: Adoption

English

Etymology

French adoption, Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare (“to adopt”).

Noun

adoption (countable and uncountable, plural adoptions)

1. The act of adopting
2. The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace^[1]:

     “The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. […]”

   A Chinese baby girl was given away for adoption.

3. Admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.

   the adoption of people into hospitals or monasteries

4. The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance

   the adoption of opinions

5. (computing) Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.

   Our company is considering the adoption of a four-day week.

Translations

act of adopting, or state of being adopted

• Arabic: تَبْنِي‏‎ m (tabnī)
• Bulgarian: осиновяване (osinovjavane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 收養 (zh), 收养 (zh) (shōuyǎng), 領養 (zh), 领养 (zh) (lǐngyǎng)

• Czech: adopce f, osvojení n
• Esperanto: adopto
• French: adoption (fr) f
• Galician: adopción (gl) f
• Georgian: შვილება (švileba), აყვანა (aq̇vana)
• German: Adoption (de) f
• Greek: υιοθεσία (el) f (yiothesía)
• Hebrew: אימוץ‏‎ (he) (y'mutz)
• Italian: adozione (it) f

• Japanese: 養子縁組 (ようしえんぐみ, yōshi-engumi)
• Korean: 입양 (ip-yang) (入養)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: adopsjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: adopsjon m

• Polish: adopcja (pl) f
• Portuguese: adoção (pt) f
• Romanian: adoptare (ro), adopție (ro)
• Russian: усыновле́ние (ru) n (usynovlénije) (of boys and generic), удочере́ние (ru) n (udočerénije) (of girls only), адо́пция f (adópcija) (rare)
• Scottish Gaelic: uchd-mhacachd f
• Spanish: adopción (es) f
• Swedish: adoption (sv) c
• Turkish: evlat edinme

admission to a more intimate relation

• Portuguese: adoção (pt) f
• Spanish: adopción (es) f

• Swedish: adoption (sv) c

choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so

• Bulgarian: усвояване (bg) (usvojavane)
• Portuguese: adoção (pt) f
• Scottish Gaelic: uchd-mhacachd f

• Spanish: adopción (es) f
• Swedish: anammande (sv)
• Turkish: benimseme (tr)

transfer between old system to another

• French: adoption (fr)

• Italian: conversione (it), migrazione, adozione (it)

References

adoption in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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Finnish

Noun

adoption

1. Genitive singular form of adoptio.

Anagrams

• adoptoin

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

adoption f (plural adoptions)

1. adoption

Related terms

• adopter

Further reading

• “adoption” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Swedish

Noun

adoption c

1. adoption

Declension

Declension of adoption
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	adoption	adoptionen	adoptioner	adoptionerna
Genitive	adoptions	adoptionens	adoptioners	adoptionernas

Related terms

• adoptera
• adoptiv

References

• adoption in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)