Partly from , partly from affection + -ate.

• IPA: /əˈfɛkʃənət/

affectionate

1. (of a person) Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond.

   She eulogised her always warm and affectionate brother.

2. (of an action, etc.) Characterised by or proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender.

   the affectionate care of a parent; an affectionate countenance; an affectionate message; affectionate language

   • 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC ↗:

     Warwick left the undertaker's shop and retraced his steps until he had passed the lawyer's office, toward which he threw an affectionate glance.

3. (obsolete) Eager; passionate; strongly inclined toward something.

• tender; lovesome; attached; loving; devoted; warm; fond; earnest; ardent.
• See also Thesaurus:affectionate

• affect
• affectation
• affecter
• affective
• affection

• French: affectueux
• German: liebevoll
• Italian: affettuoso
• Portuguese: afetuoso
• Russian: лю́бящий
• Spanish: afectuoso

• Portuguese: afetuoso, carinhoso
• Russian: лю́бящий
• Spanish: cariñoso

Either from the adjective, or from affection + -ate (modelled on Middle French affectionner).

• IPA: /əˈfɛkʃəneɪt/

affectionate (affectionates, present participle affectionating; simple past and past participle affectionated)

1. (rare) To show affection to; to have affection for.
2. (obsolete, reflexive) To emotionally attach (oneself) to.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC ↗:
     , Folio Society, 2006, p.21:

     Plutarch saith fitly of those who affectionate themselves to Monkies and little Dogges, that […].

   • 1838 February 1, Charles Dickens, To Catherine Dickens, 2012, Jenny Hartley (editor), The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=NJH1g1i4gnIC&pg=PA41&dq=%22affectionating%22|%22affectionated%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8toFUeSeGMapkgX4p4CIDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22affectionating%22|%22affectionated%22&f=false page 41],

     Ever my dear Kate your affectionated husband

     CHARLES DICKENS