origin.
The beginning of something.
Meaning & usage
The beginning of something.
place of origin
trace the origin of something
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
Ancestry.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English origine, origyne, from Old French origine, orine, ourine, from Latin orīgō (“beginning, source, birth, origin”), from orior (“to rise”); see orient. Doublet of origo.
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