origin, descent, extraction
(noun) properties attributable to your ancestry; “he comes from good origins”
origin
(noun) the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
origin, origination, inception
(noun) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
(noun) the descendants of one individual; “his entire lineage has been warriors”
beginning, origin, root, rootage, source
(noun) 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”
origin
(noun) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
origin (plural origins)
The beginning of something.
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
Synonym: source
(mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
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.
• (beginning): end
• (source): destination
• (anatomy): insertion
Source: Wiktionary
Or"i*gin, n. Etym: [F. origine, L. origo, -iginis, fr. oriri to rise, become visible; akin to Gr. r, and perh. to E. run.]
1. The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry. Burke.
2. That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
3. (Anat.)
Definition: The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion. Origin of coördinate axes (Math.), the point where the axes intersect. See Note under Ordinate.
Syn.
– Commencement; rise; source; spring; fountain; derivation; cause; root; foundation.
– Origin, Source. Origin denotes the rise or commencement of a thing; source presents itself under the image of a fountain flowing forth in a continuous stream of influences. The origin of moral evil has been much disputed, but no one can doubt that it is the source of most of the calamities of our race. I think he would have set out just as he did, with the origin of ideas -- the proper starting point of a grammarian, who is to treat of their signs. Tooke. Famous Greece, That source of art and cultivated thought Which they to Rome, and Romans hither, brought. Waller.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 June 2025
(noun) large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil
The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.
