Other forms: affiliated, affiliates, affiliating
An affiliate is a local station carrying a national network's shows. A network affiliate, the local affiliate, affiliate station.
It is independently owned and takes the network's programmes under contract, which is why American local news sits inside national schedules. In commerce, affiliate marketing pays a commission for referred sales. As a verb it means to attach formally. Note that the Latin means to adopt as a son.
1nounaffiliateA local station carrying a national network's shows.
“The show is broadcast by the network's local affiliate in Chicago.”
2verbattachTo attach formally to a larger body.
“Our small hospital is affiliated with the university's medical school.”
affiliate is an associated body.
Medieval Latin affiliare means to adopt as a son — ad plus filius, a son. Filial comes from the same son.
Latin
adfīliō
Medieval Latin
affīliātus
English, today
affiliate
Built from
From Medieval Latin affīliātus, the passive past participle of Latin adfīliō, affīliō (“to adopt as son”), from ad- + fīlius + -ō. Equivalent to affīliō + -ate. Compare French affilié.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in News & Communication