1. to establish a relationship between a parent company and a subsidiary or branch company
Usage: business/legal term; third-person singular present tense or plural form of 'filiate'
2. to determine or establish the parentage or origin of something
Usage: formal; less common usage

Examples

• The corporation filiates its smaller operations under a holding company structure.
• The parent company filiates new branches in different regions to maintain control.
• She filiates the manuscript to a 14th-century scribe based on linguistic evidence.
• The firm filiates its subsidiaries to streamline financial reporting.
• Researchers filiate the artwork to the Renaissance period through careful analysis.