origin

Noun

• the descendants of one individual
  • his entire lineage has been warriors
    

• 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
    

• the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero

• an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

• properties attributable to your ancestry
  • he comes from good origins
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  origination , inception , descent , extraction , beginning , root , rootage , source