Sentence examples for derived the name from inspiring English sources

Urbain derived the name for the element from Lutetia, the ancient Roman name for Paris, to honour his native city.

Fittingly, Ranallo derived the name of his company from the Italian word for nitrogen, an essential element for any plant's growth process.

Harris said later that he had derived the name of his invention from the Shine-O-Matic, a shoeshine machine he had read about in the Sunday paper.

The second-century physician Galen, mistaking pus for semen, derived the name from the Greek words gonos ("seed") and rhoia ("flow").

The Romans derived the name for the month of January from their god Janus, who had two faces, one looking backward and the other forward.

The Russian occupation began in 1581 with a Cossack expedition that overthrew the small khanate of Sibir (from which is derived the name of the entire area).

Keirrison's father, himself a professional, derived the names of his three sons from that of the rock musician Jim Morrison.

Shortly afterward, Gates and Allen founded Microsoft, deriving the name from the words microcomputer and software.

From this derives the name borne by the county since the late 6th century bce Guancheng ("City of the Guan").

You can try and derive the name of the company from the company's vision and mission statements.

He derives the names of spirits used in ceremonial magic from the Bible as interpreted by the Cabalists.