adoption English · revision 7195

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1340|origins=la adopto}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /əˈdɒp.ʃən/ ''(UK)''; /əˈdɑp.ʃən/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is Middle English adopcioun, [[bor|fro|adopcion]] or directly [[bor|la|adoptio|t=a taking as one's child]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) a shorter form of adoptatio, from adoptāre, to choose for oneself (see [[adopt]]),^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) from [[m|la|ad|t=to]] and [[m|la|opto|alt=optāre|t=to choose, wish]] (see [[option]]).^(Etymonline)^(NODE 1998)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The taking of a child as one's own: 1340, in the ''Ayenbite of Inwyt'',^(Barnhart 1988) the mid-14th century in Etymonline;^(Etymonline) the condition of being adopted, 1382 in the OED.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Taking into any relationship, actively, is from 1387.^(OED 1989) Taking up something and treating it as one's own, acceptance, as of an idea or practice, is from 1598.^(OED 1989) The adoption of a road by a local authority is from 1890.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1340 – adopting a child.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1382 – the state of being adopted.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1598 – acceptance of an idea.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1890 – of a road.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The legal act of taking another's child into one's family as one's own.^(AHD 2000)^(LDOCE 2009)

+ # The act of taking up and using an idea, method or plan.^(AHD 2000)^(LDOCE 2009)

+ # The formal approval or acceptance of something, as a motion.^(AHD 2000)^(LDOCE 2009)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[adoptional]]

+ * [[nonadoption]]

+ * [[preadoption]]

+ * [[readoption]]

+ * [[adoptionism]]

+ * [[proadoption]]

+ * [[open adoption]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[adopt]]

+ * [[adoptive]]

+ * [[option]]

+ * [[opt]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}