The term Mannerism is ultimately derived from the Italian word maniera (literally "style").
It is taken from the French honorable and ultimately derived from the Latin honorabilis ("worthy of honour").
Before the middle of the 8th century bce, the Phrygians adopted an alphabetic script ultimately derived from the Phoenician alphabet.
The body cells of plants and animals are clones ultimately derived from the mitosis (cell reproduction) of a single fertilized egg.
The daggers they made were of types ultimately derived from Syria, but they were exported to Cyprus in exchange, perhaps, for copper, although supplies existed in Crete.
The number system we use today is ultimately derived from the ancient Hindu and Arabic mathematics found in the Bakhshali manuscript.
The central problem facing composition today is the fetishization of materials, ultimately derived from music's refusal to allow the question of representation to be addressed.
In Iraq, the money that IS extorted from contractors, businesses and institutions ultimately derived from the expenditure of the central government in Baghdad.
Dram is ultimately derived from Greek drachma, designating an ancient coin and weight that probably originated as the amount one could hold in one's hands.
The term Baroque probably ultimately derived from the Italian word barocco, which philosophers used during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schematic logic.
These theories, ultimately derived from the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, argued that children's memories should be cultivated by "well-arranged associations" rather than by rote.
