Other forms: affiliations
An affiliation is the connection somebody has with an organisation. Political affiliation, declare your affiliations, no affiliation.
In research papers it means the institution the author works for, and it is printed under the name for exactly that reason. Declaring affiliations is how conflicts of interest are supposed to be caught, and undeclared ones are how scandals start.
1nounaffiliationThe connection somebody has with an organisation.
“He refused to reveal his party affiliation during the interview.”
affiliation is a connection.
Latin affiliatio comes from affiliare, to adopt as a son — ad plus filius, a son.
Latin
affiliatiō
French
affiliation
English, today
affiliation
Built from
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