different between affiliate vs colleague

English

Etymology

From Late Latin adfiliare, affiliare (“to adopt as son”), from Latin ad + filius (“son”): compare French affilier.

Pronunciation

Noun:

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??f?l.i.et/

Verb

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??f?l.i.e?t/

Noun

affiliate (plural affiliates)

1. Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.

   Our local TV channel is an affiliate of NBC.

Translations

Verb

affiliate (third-person singular simple present affiliates, present participle affiliating, simple past and past participle affiliated)

1. (transitive) To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
2. (transitive) to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
   • I. Taylor

     Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?

3. (transitive, said of an illegitimate child) To fix the paternity of

   to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another

4. (transitive) To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
   • H. Spencer

     How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?

5. (intransitive, followed by "to" or "with") To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.

Derived terms

• affiliation

Translations

Italian

Verb

affiliate

1. second-person plural present subjunctive of affilare
2. second-person plural present indicative of affiliare
3. second-person plural imperative of affiliare
4. second-person plural present subjunctive of affiliare
5. feminine plural of affiliato

English

Etymology

From Middle French collegue, from Latin collega (“a partner in office”), from com- (“with”) + legare (“to send on an embassy”), from lex (“law”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?li?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?li??/
• Hyphenation: col?league

Noun

colleague (plural colleagues)

1. A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate.

Synonyms

• coworker
• workmate
• See also Thesaurus:associate

Related terms

• collegial
• collegiate

Translations

See also

Do not confuse with:

• college (distant cognate, from Latin)
• collage

Verb

colleague (third-person singular simple present colleagues, present participle colleaguing, simple past and past participle colleagued)

1. To unite or associate with another or with others.

   Young Fortinbras,/ Holding a weak supposal of our worth/...Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,/...hath not failed to pester us with message/ Importing the surrender of those lands/Lost by his father. - Hamlet (Act I, Scene 2)

Further reading

• colleague in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• colleague in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.