definition of the word origin

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

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origin (plural origins)

1. the source of a river, information, goods, etc.
2. (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect
3. the beginning of something
4. (in plural) ancestry

• source

• orient
• original
• originate
• originator
• origination

• provenance

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