affiliate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun:

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /əˈfɪl.i.ət/

• Audio (US)

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Verb

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /əˈfɪl.i.eɪt/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

affiliate (plural affiliates)

1. 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.

   • 1999 July 29, Chris Sobieniak, “Weird 3d NFB animated short(any canadians in here?)”, in rec.arts.animation, Usenet‎^[1]:

     They used to been^[sic] more of a Detroit channel, as they had showed a lot of American programs, aside from being the CBC affiliate.

Derived terms

• affiliate marketing
• affiliate network

 

Translations

something that is affiliated

• Bulgarian: съдружник (bg) (sǎdružnik), филиал (bg) (filial)
• Finnish: tytäryhtiö (fi)
• German: Tochterunternehmen (de) n, Tochtergesellschaft (de) f, Zweigunternehmen n, Zweigniederlassung f, Tochter (de) f
• 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)

1. (transitive) To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
2. (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?

3. (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

4. (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?

5. (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

• 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)
• Polish: afiliować (pl)
• 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)

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Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

affiliate

1. second-person plural present subjunctive of affilare

Etymology 2

Verb

affiliate

1. inflection of affiliare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 3

Participle

affiliate f pl

1. feminine plural of affiliato