Noun

• S: (n) derivation (the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)) "he prefers shoes of Italian derivation"; "music of Turkish derivation"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) beginning, origin, root, rootage, source (the place where something begins, where it springs into being) "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
• S: (n) derivation (the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)) "he prefers shoes of Italian derivation"; "music of Turkish derivation"
• S: (n) spring (a point at which water issues forth)
• S: (n) fountainhead, headspring, head (the source of water from which a stream arises) "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream"
• S: (n) headwater (the source of a river) "the headwaters of the Nile"
• S: (n) wellhead, wellspring (the source of water for a well)
• S: (n) jumping-off place, point of departure (a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched) "one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I decided to see if I could find him"; "my point of departure was San Francisco"
• S: (n) birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience (where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence) "the birthplace of civilization"
• S: (n) home (place where something began and flourished) "the United States is the home of basketball"
• S: (n) point source (a concentrated source (especially of radiation or pollution) that is spatially constricted)
• S: (n) trail head, trailhead (the beginning of a trail)
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) deriving, derivation, etymologizing ((historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase)
• S: (n) derivation (a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions)
• S: (n) derivation ((descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation) "`singer' from `sing' or `undo' from `do' are examples of derivations"
• S: (n) ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation (inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline)
• S: (n) derivation (drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body)
• S: (n) derivation (drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation)
• S: (n) derivation (the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin)