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Origin

//ˈɒɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    the State of Origin series (an annual best-of-three rugby league series between New South Wales and Queensland, nicknamed the "Blues" and the "Maroons", respectively)
Noun
  1. 1
    The beginning of something.

    "place of origin"

  2. 2
    properties attributable to your ancestry wordnet
  3. 3
    The source of a river, information, goods, etc.

    "It is clear that the origin of the truth would be an admirable criterion of this sort, if only the various origins could be discriminated from one another from this point of view, and the history of dogmatic opinion shows that origin has always been a favorite test. Origin in immediate intuition; origin in pontifical authority; origin in supernatural revelation, as by vision, hearing, or unaccountable impression; origin in direct possession by a higher spirit, expressing itself in prophecy and warning; origin in automatic utterance generally,—these origins have been stock warrants for the truth of one opinion after another which we find represented in religious history."

  4. 4
    the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero wordnet
  5. 5
    The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
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  1. 6
    an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events wordnet
  2. 7
    The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
  3. 8
    the hereditary derivation of an individual wordnet
  4. 9
    An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
  5. 10
    the place where something begins, where it springs into being wordnet
  6. 11
    Ancestry. in-plural
  7. 12
    the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English origine, origyne, from Old French origine, orine, ourine, from Latin orīgō (“beginning, source, birth, origin”), from orior (“to rise”); see orient. Doublet of origo.

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