Origin

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1.1 Noun

1.1.1 Synonyms
1.1.2 Related terms
1.1.3 Translations

English

Noun

origin (origins)

the origin of a river, information, goods etc.
the origin of a coordinate system

Synonyms

source

Related terms

original

Translations

Chinese: 起源
Dutch: oorsprong de
Finnish: lähteet pl (1, of a river), alkuperä (1, of information etc.), origo (2)
French: origine f
German: Ursprung m
Greek: προέλευση f
Italian: origine f
Japanese: 起源
Korean: 원천
Portuguese: origem f
Russian: начало n (nachalo)
Spanish: origen m

WordNet Definitions

five

1. beginning, origin, root, rootage, source -- (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").
2. origin, descent, extraction -- (properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins").
3. origin, origination, inception -- (an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events).
4. origin -- (the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero).
5. lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock -- (the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors").

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