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derivation
noun
- 1. The act of deriving or the state or process of being derived.
2. The source or origin (especially of a word).
- Thesaurus: origin, source, root, beginning, foundation, basis, extraction, descent, ancestry, genealogy, etymology.
- The process of forming a word by adding one or more affixes to another word;
- A word formed in this way.
adj
