ORIGIN
Etymology
From Middle English origine, origyne, from Old French origine, orine, ourine,
from Latin origo (“beginning, source, birth, origin”), from orior (“to rise”); see orient. Doublet of origo.
Noun
origin (plural origins)
- The beginning of something.
- The source of a river, information, goods, etc. synonym ▲quotations ▼Synonym: source
- (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect. synonym ▲Synonym: zero vector
- (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
- (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
- (in the plural) Ancestry.
Synonyms
- (beginning): See Thesaurus:beginning
Antonyms
- (beginning): end
- (source): destination
- (anatomy): insertion