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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
origin
n
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): beginning, origin, root, rootage, source
  2. properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
    Synonym(s): origin, descent, extraction
  3. an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
    Synonym(s): origin, origination, inception
  4. the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
  5. 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"
  6. the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
    Synonym(s): lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Origin \Or"i*gin\, n. [F. origine, L. origo, -iginis, fr. oriri
      to rise, become visible; akin to Gr. 'orny`nai to stir up,
      rouse, Skr. [rsdot], and perh. to E. run.]
      1. The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
  
                     This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its
                     origin in the ancient chivalry.         --Burke.
  
      2. That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain;
            the spring; the cause; the occasion.
  
      3. (Anat.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which
            is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to
            {insertion}.
  
      {Origin of co[94]rdinate axes} (Math.), the point where the
            axes intersect. See Note under {Ordinate}.
  
      Syn: Commencement; rise; source; spring; fountain;
               derivation; cause; root; foundation.
  
      Usage: {Origin}, {Source}. Origin denotes the rise or
                  commencement of a thing; source presents itself under
                  the image of a fountain flowing forth in a continuous
                  stream of influences. The origin of moral evil has
                  been much disputed, but no one can doubt that it is
                  the source of most of the calamities of our race.
  
                           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.                                          --Tooke.
  
                           Famous Greece, That source of art and cultivated
                           thought Which they to Rome, and Romans hither,
                           brought.                                       --Waller.
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