- 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"
- properties attributable to your ancestry;
"he comes from good origins"
- an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
- the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
- 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"
- the descendants of one individual;
"his entire lineage has been warriors"
