derivation
I
noun
ancestor, ancestry, antecedent, author, authority, base, basis, begetter, beginning, birth, birthplace, causality, causation, cause, commencement, creator, descent, determinant, extraction, family, first cause, first occasion, foundation, fount, fountainhead, generator, genesis, ground, head, inception, issue, line, lineage, mainspring, origin, origination, parent, parentage, prime motive, primogenitor, producer, progenitor, provenance, provenience, reference, root, source, source material, spring, springhead, starting point, stem, stock, tracing back, ultimate cause
II
index
ancestry, birth (lineage), blood, bloodline, cause (reason), citation (attribution), connotation, consequence (conclusion), corollary, descent (lineage), development (outgrowth), genesis, inception, origin (ancestry), origin (source), origination, parentage, paternity, reason (basis), source, start
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006