Sentence examples similar to originated word from inspiring English sources

The word originated with the Greek word "presbus" for old man combined with "ōps" for eye.

The word "uppity," a word beloved by conservative news pundits, originated as a word used by Southerners in reference to African-Americans that they deemed didn't know their place in society.

The word tensegrity originated as the hyphenated word tensile-integrity structure, coined by Fuller in his patent.

The word spritz originated from the German word, "spritzen," which means "to squirt" in English.

The term is derived from the French word féodalisme, which originated from the Latin word feodum.

Also known these days as the name of a comedy website, this word originated in Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky," which was included in the 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass.

Tells how the word originated, listed in Weseen's Dictionary of American Slang, published in 1934.

story about what a "stick" of bombs is and how the word originated.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines hoodlum as a "youthful street rowdy," and says the word originated in San Francisco in the early 1870s.

A better guess is that the word originated as a diminutive of jim-jams, a term for "little doodads" that goes back to the 16th century.

Author likes to think, however, that the word originated earlier, with the 1419 Defenestration of Prague, when Zizka tossed the Burgomaster & six officials from a window of the Town Hall.