Adoption Word of the Week: Adopt

I decided since this blog was to encourage everyone joining us on our adoption journey, that maybe some can learn an adoption term. There are plenty of words used in the adoption realm, so a weekly word will do.

First word: adopt

• To take into one's family through legal means and raise as one's own child.
• To take and follow (a course of action, for example) by choice or assent: adopt a new technique.
• To take up and make one's own: adopt a new idea.
• To take on or assume: adopted an air of importance.
• To vote to accept: adopt a resolution.

[Middle English adopten, from Old French adopter, from Latin adoptāre : ad-, ad- + optāre, to choose.]

a·dopt'a·bil'i·ty n., a·dopt'a·ble adj., a·dopt'er n., a·dop'tion n