Where does “affiliation” come from?
Affiliation comes from French affiliation, from Latin affiliatio (adoption), derived from Latin affilio (to adopt as a son), from Latin filius (son), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁y-li-os.
affiliation (English): The relationship resulting from affiliating one...
Definitions
- The relationship resulting from affiliating one...
Ancestry of “affiliation”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | affiliation | affiliation |
| 2 | Latin | affiliatio | — |
| 3 | Latin | affilio | — |
| 4 | Latin | Ad | — |
| 5 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 6 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 7 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | — |
Words derived from “affiliation”