derive
verbWord Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘draw a fluid through or into a channel’): from Old French deriver or Latin derivare, from de- ‘down, away’ + rivus ‘brook, stream’.
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbspresent simple I / you / we / they derive | |
he / she / it derives | |
past simple derived | |
past participle derived | |
-ing form deriving |