词汇 | affiliate |
词源 | affiliate [E17th] We talk about parent companies, so why not child companies? This is literally what an affiliated company is. The first meaning of affiliate was ‘to adopt as a son’, and the word ultimately came from Latin filius ‘son’, from which we also get filial [LME]. By the mid 18th century affiliate was being used to mean ‘to adopt as a subordinate member of a society or company’. |
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