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From Middle English origine, from Latin origo (beginning, source, birth, origin), from oriri (to rise); see orient.

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origin (plural origins)

  1. The beginning of something.
  2. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
  3. (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect
  4. (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
  5. (cartography) an arbitrary point on the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
  6. (in the plural) ancestry

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