English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from French adoptée, feminine past participle of adopter meaning "to adopt", equivalent to adopt + -ee.
Noun
adoptee (plural adoptees)
- An adopted son or daughter.
- A person who was adopted as a child.
An adult Chinese female adoptee has found her biological parents.
- Synonym of adopter.
Derived terms
Translations
person who was adopted as a child
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 被收養人 / 被收养人 (bèishōuyǎngrén)
- Finnish: ottolapsi (fi), adoptiolapsi (fi)
- French: adopté (fr) m, adoptée (fr) f
- Georgian: ნაშვილები (našvilebi), ნაშვილები შვილი (našvilebi švili), ნაშვილები ბავშვი (našvilebi bavšvi), შვილობილი (švilobili), აყვანილი (aq̇vanili), აყვანილი ბავშვი (aq̇vanili bavšvi), შვილად აყვანილი (švilad aq̇vanili), შვილად აყვანილი ბავშვი (švilad aq̇vanili bavšvi)
- German: Adoptierter m, Adoptierte f
- Indonesian: anak angkat (id)
- Irish: uchtaí m
- Japanese: 養子 (ja) m (ようし, yōshi), 養女 (ja) f (yōjo) (daughter)
- Korean: 입양아 (ibyang'a)
- Latin: adoptator
- Russian: приёмный ребёнок m (prijómnyj rebjónok), приёмыш (ru) m (prijómyš)
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- Bulgarian: осиновен (bg) (osinoven)
- Esperanto: adoptito
- Hebrew: מאומץ m (me'umatz), מאומצת f (me'umetzet')
- Italian: adottato (it) m, adottata (it) f, adottati (it) pl, adottate (it) f pl
- Latin: adoptatus m, adoptata f
- Portuguese: adoptado m, adoptada m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: посвојче n, нахранче n, нахранко m, нахранка f, усвојеник m, усвојеница f
- Spanish: adoptado (es) m, adoptada (es) f
- Volapük: (♂♀) daoptäb, (♂) hidaoptäb, (♀) jidaoptäb
- Zazaki: depıtae m, depıtao f
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