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ɪ noun
1.
something from which anything arises or is derived; source; fountainhead: to follow a stream to its origin.
2.
rise or derivation from a particular source: the origin of a word.
3.
the first stage of existence; beginning: the origin of Quakerism in America.
4.
ancestry; parentage; extraction: to be of Scottish origin.
5.
Anatomy.
a.
the point of derivation.
b.
the more fixed portion of a muscle.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin orīgin- (stem of orīgō) beginning, source, lineage, derivative of orīrī to rise; cf. orient
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin orīgin- (stem of orīgō) beginning, source, lineage, derivative of orīrī to rise; cf. orient
Synonyms
1. root, foundation. 4. birth, lineage, descent.
1. root, foundation. 4. birth, lineage, descent.
Antonyms
1. destination, end.
1. destination, end.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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World English Dictionary
origin (ˈɒrɪdʒɪn) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a primary source; derivation |
| 2. | the beginning of something; first stage or part |
| 3. | (often plural) ancestry or parentage; birth; extraction |
| 4. | anatomy |
| a. the end of a muscle, opposite its point of insertion | |
| b. the beginning of a nerve or blood vessel or the site where it first starts to branch out | |
| 5. | maths |
| a. the point of intersection of coordinate axes or planes | |
| b. See also pole the point whose coordinates are all zero | |
| 6. | commerce the country from which a commodity or product originates: shipment from origin |
| [C16: from French origine, from Latin orīgō beginning, birth, from orīrī to rise, spring from] | |
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Word Origin & History
origin
early 15c., from Fr. origine, from L. originem "rise, beginning, source," from oriri "to rise" (see orchestra).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary
origin or·i·gin (ôr'ə-jĭn)
n.
The point at which something comes into existence or from which it derives or is derived.
The fact of originating; rise or derivation.
The point of attachment of a muscle that remains relatively fixed during contraction.
The starting point of a cranial or spinal nerve.
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American Heritage
Science Dictionary
origin  (ôr'ə-jĭn) Pronunciation Key
The point at which the axes of a Cartesian coordinate system intersect. The coordinates of the origin are (0,0) in two dimensions and (0,0,0) in three dimensions. |
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Example sentences
But forensics tests raised more questions about its origins than it offered answers.
Those origins, people know them and they understand them right away, and it gets to the core of that character.
Traces the origins of the scholarly study of mummies back to the nineteenth century.
As with panettone, the origins of this filled bread are uncertain.
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