Etymology

affiliation

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Today it means: The relationship resulting from affiliating one thing with another. Full definition →

French affiliation ← Latin affiliatiō
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  1. Latin · derived fromaffiliatiō
  2. French · borrowed fromaffiliation
  3. English todayaffiliation

From French affiliation, from Latin affiliatiō, noun of action from verb affiliō, from af- (form of ad- (“to”) before an f) + filiō (from filius (“son”)).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.