origin

n. source; beginning; birth, parentage, nationality

Origin is a word meaning "beginning". In this sense, it may refer to:Origin (start), the beginning, starting-point, cause, or ultimate source, from which a thing is derivedOrigin belief, the account, often in narrative form, that describes how existence, the universe, life, and humanity came to beOrigin (mathematics), the point where the coordinate axis of the system intersectOrigin of life, scientific theories and speculation on the beginning of lifeOrigin of a muscle, the attachment of a muscle to a non-moving bone or other structure.Origin of replication, is the location at which DNA replication is initiatedHuman origin, scientific understanding of the origin of humanityOrigin of the universe, also known as the "Big Bang"The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin's 1859 bookOrigin story, in comic books, describing how a character gained their special abilities and/or how they became a superhero or supervillain
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Noun
1. 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"
(synonym) beginning, root, rootage, source
(hypernym) point
(hyponym) derivation
(derivation) originate
2. properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
(synonym) descent, extraction
(hypernym) ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation
(hyponym) full blood
3. an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
(synonym) origination, inception
(hypernym) beginning
(hyponym) germination
(derivation) originate
4. the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
(hypernym) intersection
5. the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
(synonym) lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, parentage, stemma, stock
(hypernym) genealogy, family tree
(hyponym) family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry

(n.)
The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.
  

(n.)
The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
  

(n.)
That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
  

The country in which the cargo was loaded and/or the transit originated. (SLSDC1)

Starting point of a trip. (FHWA3)