FILIATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Fix the paternity of

Example:

The court filiated the child born out of wedlock

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "filiate" is one way to...):

determine; set (fix conclusively or authoritatively)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

filiation (the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors)