Meaning

2 senses

  1. (archaic, transitive)To adopt as son or daughter.

  2. (archaic, transitive)To establish filiation between (see "filiation" for the many senses).

More definitions
  • fix the paternity of

Forms

filiates, filiating, filiated, filiated
Base formfiliate · to filiate
3rd person singularfiliates
Present participlefiliating
Past simplefiliated
Past participlefiliated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfiliate
he, she, itfiliates

Past simpleLesson

all personsfiliated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave filiated
he, she, ithas filiated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill filiate

Word family

1 related words
Relatedfiliation

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
fileA1filenamefilialB2filibusterfiligree
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