THESAURUS
derivation
IC analysis, acceptance, accidence, acquisition, admission, admittance, adoption, affiliation, affix, affixation, allomorph, ancestry, apparentation, appropriation, assumption, beginning, birth, blood, bloodline, borrowed plumes, bound morpheme, bowwow theory, branch, breed, by-product, cognate, commencement, common ancestry, comparative linguistics, conception, conclusion, conjugation, consanguinity, consequence, consequent, copying, corollary, cutting, declension, deduction, derivative, deriving, descent, descriptive linguistics, development, dialectology, difference of form, dingdong theory, direct line, distaff side, distillate, doublet, effect, enclitic, eponym, eponymy, etymology, etymon, event, eventuality, eventuation, extraction, family, female line, filiation, folk etymology, formative, foundation, fountain, free form, fruit, genealogy, genesis, getting, glossematics, glossology, glottochronology, glottology, grammar, graphemics, grass roots, harvest, head, historical linguistics, house, illation, imitation, immediate constituent analysis, inception, induction, inference, infix, infixation, inflection, infringement, issue, language study, legacy, lexicology, lexicostatistics, line, line of descent, lineage, linguistic geography, linguistic science, linguistics, logical outcome, male line, mathematical linguistics, mocking, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, offshoot, offspring, origin, original, origination, outcome, outgrowth, paleography, paradigm, pasticcio, pastiche, philology, phonetics, phonology, phylum, pirating, plagiarism, plagiary, precipitate, prefix, prefixation, primitive, proclitic, product, provenance, provenience, psycholinguistics, race, radical, radix, receipt, receival, receiving, reception, result, resultant, rise, root, seed, semantic history, semantics, sept, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, side, simulation, sociolinguistics, source, spear side, spindle side, stem, stirps, stock, strain, structuralism, succession, suffix, suffixation, sword side, syntactics, taking, taproot, theme, transformational linguistics, upshot, well, wellspring, whence, word history, word-formation
ROGET THESAURUS
derivation
Word
N
word, term, vocable, name, phrase, root, etymon, derivative, part of speech, ideophone, dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, glossary, index, concordance, thesaurus, gradus, delectus, etymology,
derivation, glossology, terminology orismology, paleology, lexicography, glossographer, lexicologist, verbarian, verbal, literal, titular, nominal, conjugate, paronymous, derivative, verbally, verbatim, the artillery of words.
Copy
N
copy, facsimile, counterpart, effigies, effigy, form, likeness, image, picture, photo, xerox, similitude, semblance, ectype, photo offset, electrotype, imitation, model, representation, adumbration, study, portrait, resemblance, duplicate, reproduction, cast, tracing, reflex, reflexion, reflection, shadow, echo, transcript, transcription, recording, scan, chip off the old block, reprint, new printing, rechauffe, apograph, fair copy, parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty, travestie, paraphrase, derivative,
derivation, modification, expansion, extension, revision, second edition, servile copy, servile imitation, plagiarism, counterfeit, fake, pasticcio, faithful, lifelike, close, conscientious, unoriginal, imitative, derivative.
Cause
N
cause, origin, source, principle, element, occasioner, prime mover, primum mobile, vera causa, author, mainspring, agent, leaven, groundwork, foundation, spring, fountain, well, font, fountainhead, spring head, wellhead, fons et origo, genesis, descent, remote cause, influence, pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum, key, proximate cause, causa causans, straw that breaks the camel's back, ground, reason, reason why, why and wherefore, rationale, occasion,
derivation, final cause, les dessous des cartes, undercurrents, rudiment, egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix radical, etymon, nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule, radicle, semen, sperm, nest, cradle, nursery, womb, nidus, birthplace, hotbed, causality, causation, origination, production, caused, causal, original, primary, primitive, primordial, aboriginal, protogenal, radical, embryonic, embryotic, in embryo, in ovo, seminal, germinal, at the bottom of, connate, having a common origin, because, behind the scenes, causa latet vis est notissima, felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.
Effect
N
effect, consequence, aftergrowth, aftercome, derivative,
derivation, result, resultant, resultance, upshot, issue, denouement, end, development, outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud, production, produce, work, handiwork, fabric, performance, creature, creation, offspring, offshoot, firstfruits, firstlings, heredity, telegony, premices premises, owing to, resulting from, derivable from, due to, caused by, dependent upon, derived from, evolved from, derivative, hereditary, telegonous, of course, it follows that, naturally, consequently, as a consequence, in consequence, through, all along of, necessarily, eventually, cela va sans dire, thereby hangs a tale.