Literary notes about Derived (AI summary)
In literature, the term "derived" is used as a versatile marker of origin or source, linking a current element back to an earlier cause or foundation. Authors use it to trace personal or social ties, such as marital relationships leading to kinship [1] or names being handed down through family lines [2]. It also plays a role in etymological and mythological discussions, where a nation’s name or a word’s form is noted as having been derived from ancient deities or other sources [3, 4]. Philosophers and historians similarly employ the term to indicate that abstract ideas, legal systems, or revenues are drawn from more concrete origins or past authorities [5, 6, 7]. Thus, across genres—from genealogy to etymology and metaphysical inquiry—the word "derived" consistently underscores that what is present has its roots in something preceding it [8, 9].
- 2. Marriage ties .—(Husband and wife; and derived from that, father and children).
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski - Majorian derived his name from his maternal grandfather, who, in the reign of the great Theodosius, had commanded the troops of the Illyrian frontier.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - 236 Svithjod, which here means Sweden, is derived from Odin’s name, Svidr and thjod = folk, people.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson - His name is derived ab eundo , from passing; from whence thorough passages are called jani , and the outward doors of common houses are called januæ .
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations by Marcus Tullius Cicero - From this effect of it on the imagination is derived its influence on the will and passions.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - In a general sense, the system of law derived from England, in general use among English-speaking people.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson - The revenue, however, which is derived from such things, must always be ultimately drawn from some other source of revenue.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - From this, three important rules, which we must observe in the work of dream interpretation, are straightway derived: 1.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - Hume has already shown how the most complex and abstract concepts are derived from sensation.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
