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English
Etymology
< Middle English origine < Latin origo (“beginning, source, birth, origin”) < oriri (“to rise”); see orient.
Pronunciation
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Noun
origin (plural origins)
- The beginning of something.
- The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
- (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect
- (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 the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
- (in plural) ancestry
Synonyms
- (source): source
Antonyms
- (anatomy): insertion
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See also
External links
- origin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- origin in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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