derive fromsomething
phrasal verbwithderiveverbuk/dɪˈraɪv/us/dɪˈraɪv/
C1
to come from something:
TheEnglishword "olive" isderivedfrom theLatinword "oliva".
Origins and sources
- bases
- be a recipe for disaster, trouble, success, etc.idiom
- beginning
- birth
- birthplace
- born
- breeding ground
- fount
- fountainhead
- gateway drug
- genesis
- hail
- hail fromsomewhere
- paternity
- provenance
- recipe
- root
- seed
- son
- source