origin

1. The place where something begins, where it springs into being (synset 108524579)
   "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"
   is a type of: point - the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
   subtypes:

   • derivation - the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
   • spring - a point at which water issues forth
   • fountainhead, head, headspring - the source of water from which a stream arises
   • headwater - the source of a river
   • wellhead, wellspring - the source of water for a well
   • jumping-off place, point of departure - a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched
   • birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience - where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
   • home - place where something began and flourished
   • point source - a concentrated source (especially of radiation or pollution) that is spatially constricted
   • trail head, trailhead - the beginning of a trail
   same as: beginning, root, rootage, source
2. Properties attributable to your ancestry (synset 104930920)
   "he comes from good origins"
   is a type of: ancestry, derivation, filiation, lineage - inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
   subtypes: full blood - descent from parents both of one pure breed
   same as: descent, extraction
3. An event that is a beginning;
   A first part or stage of subsequent events (synset 107338522)
   is a type of: beginning - the event consisting of the start of something
   subtypes:

   • germination - the origin of some development
   • cause - events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something
   • overture, preliminary, prelude - something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
   • emanation, procession, rise - (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
   same as: inception, origination
4. The point of intersection of coordinate axes;
   Where the values of the coordinates are all zero (synset 106018435)
   is a type of: intersection - a point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations
5. The source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived (synset 113580380)
   "the rumor had its origin in idle gossip"; "vegetable origins"; "mineral origin"; "origin in sensation"
   is a type of: source - (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system
6. The descendants of one individual (synset 108118903)
   "his entire lineage has been warriors"
   is a type of: family tree, genealogy - successive generations of kin
   subtypes:

   • family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept - people descended from a common ancestor
   • side - a family line of descent
   same as: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock

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