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"