affiliate

English

Etymology

From Late Latin adfiliare, affiliare (“to adopt as son”); ad + filius (“son”): compare French affilier.

Pronunciation

Noun:

(UK)(US) IPA^(key): /əˈfɪl.i.et/
Audio (US) (file)

Verb

(UK)(US) IPA^(key): /əˈfɪl.i.eɪt/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

affiliate (plural affiliates)

Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.
Our local TV channel is an affiliate of NBC.

Translations

something that is affiliated

Bulgarian: съдружник (bg) (sǎdružnik), филиал (bg) (filial)
Finnish: tytäryhtiö (fi)
Hungarian: tagvállalat, tagszervezet, leányvállalat (hu), fiókvállalat (hu)

Spanish: afiliado (es) m, afiliada (es) f, filial (es) f
Swedish: filial (sv) c, dotterbolag (sv) n

Verb

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 one's offspring
(transitive) to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
- I. Taylor
  Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?
(transitive, said of an illegitimate child) To fix the paternity of
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.
- H. Spencer
  How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
(intransitive, followed by "to" or "with") To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.

Derived terms

affiliate with
affiliate to
affiliation

Translations

to adopt — see adopt

to fix the paternity of

Bulgarian: осиновявам (osinovjavam)
Finnish: määrittää isyys
German: aufnehmen (de)

Japanese: 認知する (ninchi suru)
Swedish: tilldöma (sv) (någon faderskapet)

to connect in the way of descent

Finnish: johtaa (fi)
German: herleiten (de)

Swedish: härleda (sv)

to attach (to) or unite (with)

Bulgarian: присъединявам (bg) (prisǎedinjavam) (се), сдружавам (sdružavam)(се)
Czech: připojit se pf, přidat (cs) pf
Finnish: liittyä (fi)
German: verbinden (de), beitreten (de), beifügen (de), zufügen (de)
Hungarian: csatlakozik (hu), bekapcsolódik (hu), beolvad (hu)

Portuguese: afiliar (pt), filiar (pt)
Russian: присоединя́ться (ru) impf (prisojedinjátʹsja), присоедини́ться (ru) pf (prisojedinítʹsja)
Spanish: afiliar (es), asociar (es)
Swedish: ansluta (sv) (with till), förena (sv) (with med), uppta (sv) (~ a member), göra (sv) till filial (~ a company)
Turkish: katmak (tr), eklemek (tr)

Italian

Verb

affiliate

second-person plural present subjunctive of affilare
second-person plural present indicative of affiliare
second-person plural imperative of affiliare
second-person plural present subjunctive of affiliare
feminine plural of affiliato