Origin Definition

English

Etymology

< Middle English origine < Latin origo (“beginning, source, birth, origin”) < oriri (“to rise”); see orient.

Pronunciation

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Noun

origin (plural origins)

1. The beginning of something.
2. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
3. (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect
4. (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
5. (cartography) an arbitrary point on the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
6. (in the plural) ancestry

Synonyms

• (source): source
• (mathematics): zero vector

Antonyms

• (anatomy): insertion

Related terms

• orient
• original
• originate
• originator
• origination

See also

• provenance

External links

• origin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• origin in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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