derivation

See also: Derivation and dérivation

English

Etymology

From Middle English derivacioun, borrowed from Middle French dérivation, from Latin dērīvātiō, dērīvātiōnem. Morphologically derive +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɛ.ɹɪˈveɪ.ʃ(ə)n/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

derivation (countable and uncountable, plural derivations)

1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
2. The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
3. (genealogy, linguistics) The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).

   the derivation of a word from an Indo-European root

4. (grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
5. The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
6. That from which a thing is derived.
7. That which is derived; a derivative; the result of a deduction.
8. The process of deriving one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction.
   1. (mathematics) A formal proof: a sequence of statements, each of which is logically entailed by those preceding (with respect to some collection of rules of inference), the initial statements being taken as axioms.
9. (mathematics, calculus) The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first.
10. (mathematics, differential algebra) An algebraic generalization of the derivative operator (from its natural setting in the ring of real-valued functions) to a general associative algebra over a field. Formally, (given an algebra ${\displaystyle A}$ over a field ${\displaystyle K}$) a ${\displaystyle K}$-linear endomorphism that satisfies Leibnitz's Law.
    1. Any of several generalizations of this notion: a Hasse–Schmidt derivation, a graded derivation, etc.
11. (medicine, historical) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.

Derived terms

• biderivation
• derivational
• derivationism
• derivationist
• derivation tree
• misderivation
• quasiderivation
• rederivation
• subderivation
• superderivation
• zero derivation

Related terms

• derive
• derived
• derivative

Translations

leading or drawing off of water

Bulgarian: деривация (derivacija) Finnish: juoksutus (fi) Italian: deviazione (it) f Romanian: derivație (ro) f Swedish: avledning (sv) c

act of receiving anything from a source

Bulgarian: извеждане (izveždane) Czech: odvození n Finnish: johtaminen (fi) Hungarian: kinyerés (hu), származtatás (hu) Italian: derivazione (it) f

act of tracing origin or descent

Bulgarian: етимология (bg) (etimologija) Catalan: derivació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 派生 (zh) (pàishēng) Danish: afledning c Esperanto: derivado Finnish: johtaminen (fi) (grammar) German: Herleiten n, Herleitung (de) f, Ableitung (de) f Hungarian: származtatás (hu) Italian: etimologia (it) f Japanese: 派生 (ja) (hasei) Maori: takenga Mongolian: гарал үүсэл (mn) (garal üüsel) Norwegian: Bokmål: avledning m or f, avleiing m or f Nynorsk: avleiing f Russian: происхожде́ние (ru) n (proisxoždénije) Spanish: derivación (es) f Swedish: avledning (sv) c, härledning (sv) c Venetan: derivasion (vec) f

forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it

Albanian: ndajshtesim (sq) m Azerbaijani: törəmə, derivativ Danish: afledning c, derivation c Dutch: afleiding (nl) f, derivatie (nl) f Georgian: წარმოქმნა (c̣armokmna), სიტყვაწარმოქმნა (siṭq̇vac̣armokmna), წარმოება (c̣armoeba), სიტყვაწარმოება (siṭq̇vac̣armoeba), დერივაცია (derivacia) Hungarian: deriváció, képzés (hu), szóképzés (hu) Norwegian: Bokmål: avledning m or f, avleiing m or f, derivasjon (no) m Nynorsk: avleiing f, derivasjon m Polish: derywacja (pl) f Swedish: avledning (sv) c

state or method of being derived

Finnish: johtaminen (fi) (state); johto-oppi (method)

that from which sthg is derived

Danish: afledning c Finnish: kanta (fi) (linguistics) Hungarian: eredet (hu), kiindulás (hu)

that which is derived

Danish: afledning c, derivat n Finnish: johdos (fi) Hungarian: származék (hu) Maori: takenga Norwegian: Bokmål: avledning m or f, avleiing m or f Nynorsk: avleiing f Polish: derywacja (pl) f Swedish: avledning (sv) c

math: operation of deducing

Bulgarian: диференциране (diferencirane) Czech: derivace (cs) f Dutch: afleiding (nl) f Finnish: johtaminen (fi) Georgian: გაწარმოება (gac̣armoeba) German: Derivation (de) f Hungarian: deriválás (hu) Norwegian: Bokmål: derivasjon (no) m Nynorsk: derivasjon m Romanian: derivare (ro) f Slovak: derivácia f Spanish: derivada (es) f, derivación (es) f Swedish: derivering (sv) c, härledning (sv) c

medicine: drawing of humors or fluids

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Translations to be checked

Dutch: afleiding (nl) f Punjabi: ਵਿਉਤਪੱਤੀ f (viutapattī)

Further reading

• “derivation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

See also

• derivation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ordinative

Danish

Noun

derivation c (singular definite derivationen, plural indefinite derivationer)

1. (grammar) derivation

Declension

Declension of derivation

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	derivation	derivationen	derivationer	derivationerne
genitive	derivations	derivationens	derivationers	derivationernes

Further reading

• “derivation” in Den Danske Ordbog