1. origin(n = noun.location) beginning, root, rootage, source - the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
is a kind of point
has particulars: derivation, spring, fountainhead, head, headspring, headwater, wellhead, wellspring, jumping-off place, point of departure, birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience, home, point source, trail head, trailhead
Derived form verb originate3
2. origin(n = noun.attribute) descent, extraction - properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
is a kind of ancestry, derivation, filiation, lineage
has particulars: full blood
3. origin(n = noun.event) inception, origination - an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events; Array
is a kind of beginning
has particulars: germination, cause, overture, preliminary, prelude, emanation, procession, rise
Derived forms verb originate2, verb originate1, verb originate3
4. origin(n = noun.cognition) Array - the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero; Array
is a kind of intersection
5. origin(n = noun.process) Array - the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived; "the rumor had its origin in idle gossip"; "vegetable origins"; "mineral origin"; "origin in sensation"
is a kind of source
6. origin(n = noun.group) ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock - the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
is a kind of family tree, genealogy
has particulars: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept, side
1. The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth. [1913 Webster]
"This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry." [1913 Webster]
2. That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion. [1913 Webster]
3. The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to
"I think he would have set out just as he did, with the origin of ideas -- the proper starting point of a grammarian, who is to treat of their signs." [1913 Webster]
"Famous Greece,
That source of art and cultivated thought
Which they to Rome, and Romans hither, brought." [1913 Webster]
origin, n.
1 a beginning or starting-point; a derivation; a source (a word of Latin origin).
2 (often in pl.) a person's ancestry (what are his origins?).
3 Anat. a a place at which a muscle is firmly attached. b a place where a nerve or blood vessel begins or branches from a main nerve or blood vessel.
4 Math. a fixed point from which coordinates are measured.
Etymology:
F origine or f. L origo -ginis f. oriri rise
N beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation, introduction, alpha, initial, inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the curtain, maiden speech, outbreak, onset, brunt, initiative, move, first move, narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge, fresh start, new departure, origin, source, rise, bud, germ, egg, rudiment, genesis, primogenesis, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy, start, inception, creation, starting point, dawn, evolution, title-page, head, heading, van, caption, fatihah, entrance, entry, inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch, portal, portico, propylon, door, gate, gateway, postern, wicket, threshold, vestibule, propylaeum, skirts, border, first stage, first blush, first glance, first impression, first sight, rudiments, elements, outlines, grammar, alphabet, ABC, beginning, initial, initiatory, initiative, inceptive, introductory, incipient, proemial, inaugural, inchoate, inchoative, embryonic, rudimental, primogenial, primeval, primitive, primordial, aboriginal, natal, nascent, first, foremost, leading, maiden, begun, just begun, at the beginning, in the beginning first, in the first place, imprimis, first and foremost, in limine, in the bud, in embryo, in its infancy, from the beginning, from its birth, ab initio, ab ovo, ab incunabilis, ab origine, let's get going!, let's get this show on the road!, up and at 'em!, aller Anfang ist schwer, dimidium facti qui coepit habet, omnium rerum principia parva sunt.
N cause, origin, source, principle, element, occasioner, prime mover, primum mobile, vera causa, author, mainspring, agent, leaven, groundwork, foundation, spring, fountain, well, font, fountainhead, spring head, wellhead, fons et origo, genesis, descent, remote cause, influence, pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum, key, proximate cause, causa causans, straw that breaks the camel's back, ground, reason, reason why, why and wherefore, rationale, occasion, derivation, final cause, les dessous des cartes, undercurrents, rudiment, egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix radical, etymon, nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule, radicle, semen, sperm, nest, cradle, nursery, womb, nidus, birthplace, hotbed, causality, causation, origination, production, caused, causal, original, primary, primitive, primordial, aboriginal, protogenal, radical, embryonic, embryotic, in embryo, in ovo, seminal, germinal, at the bottom of, connate, having a common origin, because, behind the scenes, causa latet vis est notissima, felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.