Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Clipping of adoptable.
To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. · To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild. · To contribute towards the upkeep of (a child or animal), in exchange for occasional stories, pictures, etc. · To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
From Middle French adopter, from Latin adoptō; ad + optō (“to choose, desire”), equivalent to ad- + opt.
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