adottare — meaning in English

English meaning

• adopt verb To legally take a child into your family as your own.
• borrow verb To take or receive something temporarily, intending to give it back.
• foster verb To raise or care for a child who is not biologically one's own.

Senses

adottare is used for these senses in English:

• borrow To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
• foster (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.

adopt — full definition

1. verb To legally take a child into your family as your own.
2. verb To take a pet or cause under your care, or to start using an idea, method, or practice.

borrow — full definition

1. verb To take or receive something temporarily, intending to give it back.
2. verb To adopt an idea, word, or style from somewhere else and use it as your own.

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