6 sentences with 'derives'

Example sentences and phrases with the word derives and other words derived from it.

« The Greeks gave it its name: "Gymnasia" derives from gymnos, which means "naked" (the exercises were performed free of clothes), although they were not the first to practice it. »
« The English word "polis" derives from "polis" - the polis was the centre of Greek politics in every city-state, and Greek innovations in the field of political theory would have an enormous historical legacy. »
« The essential difference is that tragedy revolves around pathos, or suffering, from which the word "pathetic" derives. »
« In turn, the word "emperor" derives from imperator, the title of a victorious Roman general in the field, which was adopted as another honorific by Roman emperors. »
« In Gaul, a fierce tribe called the Franks, from which France derives its name, came to power, driving out rivals such as the Visigoths. »
« This unregulated, traditional, violence-based system of unregulated "law", from which the modern Spanish word "feudo" derives, contrasted with the written codes of Roman law that still survived after the fall of Rome itself. »

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