6 sentences with “derives”

The essential difference is that tragedy revolves around pathos, or suffering, from which the word "pathetic" derives.

In Gaul, a fierce tribe called the Franks, from which France derives its name, came to power, driving out rivals such as the Visigoths.

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.

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.

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.