origin

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

source root rootage beginning descent extraction inception origination ancestry bloodline blood line lineage pedigree line of descent stemma parentage blood stock line

Origen

original originalism originality originally original sin originate originate in origination origination fee originative originator