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Old 09-17-2004, 11:41 AM   #8
smoothmoniker
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No, “derived from” is appropriate. None of those words, with the possible exception of "Sophism", are directly imported from another language. Their roots stem from Latin, but they’ve been altered along the way.

Thus, the English version is the derivation of the Latin version.
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