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单词 origin
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originn.adj.

Brit. /ˈɒrᵻdʒ(ᵻ)n/, U.S. /ˈɔrədʒ(ə)n/
Forms: late Middle English origyne, 1500s origene, 1500s origion, 1500s origioun, 1500s–1700s origen, 1500s– origin, 1600s–1700s origine.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin orīgin-, orīgō.
Etymology: < classical Latin orīgin-, orīgō ancestry, coming into being, beginning, that from which something is derived, source < orīrī to rise (see orient n. and adj.) + -īgō, suffix forming nouns. Compare Middle French, French origine, noun (1450–1500 in anatomy, first manifestation (1461–1466), source, provenance (1462–1463), 1470 in sense ‘birth of an individual or a family’, 1679 in mathematics) and adjective (1520). Compare Italian origine (1304–8), Spanish origen (a1400).With the trisyllabic French forms cited above compare earlier disyllabic forms Old French, Middle French orine (1138), Anglo-Norman orine, origne.
A. n.
1.
a. The fact of being born from a particular ancestor or race; parentage, ancestry, extraction, pedigree. Also in plural.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun]
kinc892
strindc900
i-cundeOE
bloodOE
kindredOE
birtha1250
strainc1275
gesta1300
offspring?a1300
lineagea1330
descentc1330
linec1330
progenya1382
generationc1384
engendrurec1390
ancestry?a1400
genealogya1400
kind?a1400
stranda1400
coming?a1425
bedc1430
descencec1443
descension1447
ligneea1450
originc1450
family1474
originala1475
extraction1477
nativityc1485
parentelea1492
stirpc1503
stem?c1550
race1563
parentage1565
brood1590
ancientry1596
descendance1599
breeding1600
descendancy1603
delineation1606
extract1631
ancestory1650
agnation1782
havage1799
engendure1867
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 92 Arrabiens & all þa [of] þat origyne.
a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) f. 107 Vthir persouns of obscure origine.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xvi. 32 That nature which contemnes it origin Cannot be bordered certaine in it selfe.
1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. iii. 118 And doth his noble Origine forget.
1737 R. Glover Leonidas i. 17 Their kings, who boast an origin divine.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila i. iii. 24 Why cannot I learn thine origin, thy rank, thy parents?
1869 J. S. Mill Subject. Women i. 34 Wealth..is actually obtained by many men of the very humblest origin.
1957 P. White Voss xiii. 372 Although the money he had made was enough to have bought him absolution of his origins, Mr Bonner had never thought to aspire to gentle birth.
1988 S. Afr. Panorama Apr. 30/1 Polish–Jewish by origin but born in South Africa, sculptor Mickey Korzennik takes pleasure in chatting to visitors.
b. More generally: the act or fact of beginning, or of springing from something; beginning of existence with reference to source or cause; rise or first manifestation.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > origination or derivation
originalc1425
originationc1443
offspringa1500
origin1528
descent1532
outspring1538
breeding1549
pedigree1566
exorture1578
genesis1604
edition1605
derivation1609
elementing1638
procedure1651
ingeneration1652
originacy1659
filiation1799
upgrowth1844
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 223 Þe book of þe comynge forþ of þe soule; [1432–50 the begynnenge of the saule; L. libellum de origine animæ].]
1528–9 Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes XXXIX. f. 158 [That the King and his progenitors have held the realm] fre imperiale fra the first origioun.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Peril of Idolatry ii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 183 Lactantius..in his book of the Origin of Error.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 180 Yet doe I belieue the origin and comencement of his greefe, Sprung from neglected loue. View more context for this quotation
1664 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders (new ed.) i. sig. e5 The Antiquity and Origine of Herauldry.
1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent ii. 9 The better ascertaining the Origin of Gavelkind.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 390 Man alone..bears upon his countenance the impress of a celestial origin.
1867 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 9) iii. ii. 377 The origin of evil, like every other beginning, shrouds itself in darkness.
a1925 H. T. Lane Talks to Parents & Teachers (1928) 73 From the age of three..all children will wonder about their origin.
1990 Skin Diver Mar. 70/2 St. Lucia is volcanic in origin.
2.
a. That from which anything originates, or is derived; source of being or existence; starting point. Now frequently in plural.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun]
welleOE
mothereOE
ordeOE
wellspringeOE
fathereOE
headeOE
oreOE
wellspringOE
rootc1175
morea1200
beginningc1200
head wella1325
sourcec1374
principlea1382
risinga1382
springinga1382
fountain14..
springerc1410
nativity?a1425
racinea1425
spring1435
headspring?a1439
seminaryc1440
originationc1443
spring wellc1450
sourdre1477
primordialc1487
naissance1490
wellhead?1492
offspringa1500
conduit-head1517
damc1540
springhead1547
principium1550
mint1555
principal1555
centre1557
head fountain1563
parentage1581
rise1589
spawna1591
fount1594
parent1597
taproot1601
origin1604
fountainhead1606
radix1607
springa1616
abundary1622
rist1622
primitive1628
primary1632
land-spring1642
extraction1655
upstart1669
progenerator1692
fontala1711
well-eye1826
first birth1838
ancestry1880
Quelle1893
1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. §2. 163 What are those dolefull tunes..but offsprings of pensiue furies, and origens of more vehement melancholie fits?
1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth ii. 78 Mountains are the principal Source and Origin of Springs and Fountains.
1740 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature III. iii. 265 Negligence in this particular [sc. cleanliness] is a fault..and this fault can have no other origin than the uneasy sensation, which it excites in others.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 18 We hoped..to be able to examine the glacier to its origin.
1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 242 It is to the North of France..that we are to look for the true origins of our modern literature.
1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes viii. 102 The spreading noose hung above her head..and then, as she looked upward to detect the origin of the swishing sound of the rope, it settled about her neck.
1988 B. Chatwin Utz 19 He..studied the history of porcelain manufacture, from its origins in China.
b. Anatomy and Zoology. A place from which a structure, esp. a muscle or nerve, arises, or at which it is attached; spec. the more fixed of the two points of attachment of a muscle (cf. insertion n. 3).
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [noun] > root or base
rootc1225
base?c1425
basis1615
fund1636
fundus1659
root end1675
origin1692
radix1697
1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 119 The very strong Ligaments..which in drawing it back towards its Origine, do fold it up.
1705 Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 1982 He says, that none have taken notice of the true Origin of this Muscle before him.
1746 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 1 The external Superficies of every Muscle, its Origin and Insertion.
1826 Lancet 16 Dec. 337/1 In describing the muscles, we make use of the words—origin and insertion: now, these are not good words to be used; we ought rather to say, the attachment of the muscles.
1851 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum (ed. 5) 238 A good view of the whole extent of origin of the flexor sublimis digitorum.
1898 B. P. Colton Physiol. iv. 92 They run in the sympathetic nerve, but have their origin and center in the spinal bulb.
1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xix. vii. 309 The end of the muscle attached to a bone that does not move is called the origin.
1997 W. C. Ehrenfeuchter et al. in R. C. Ward Found. Osteopathic Med. lvi. 781/2 Kneading, a rhythmic, lateral stretching of a myofascial structure, in which origin and insertion are held stationary and the central portion of the structure is stretched like a bowstring.
c. Mathematics. A fixed point from which measurement or motion commences; spec. (a) the point of intersection of the axes in Cartesian coordinates; (b) the pole in polar coordinates.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > point > [noun]
pointa1398
prick1532
sign1570
punctuma1592
punct1638
mathematical point1659
origin1723
fixed point1778
lattice point1857
pole1879
point of closure1956
the world > relative properties > number > geometry > point > [noun] > of intersection or contact
toucha1398
touchpoint1585
foot1652
contact1660
section?1677
origin1723
node1866
biflecnode1879
intersect1886
meet1893
1723 E. Stone tr. G. F. A. de l'Hospital Analytick Treat. Conick Section 5 The Parabola infinitely extends itself more and more on each Side the Axis AP, beginning from the Origin.
1873 B. Williamson Elem. Treat. Differential Calculus (ed. 2) xii. §182 If the focus [of a conic] be the origin of inversion, the inverse is a curve called the Limaçon of Pascal.
1873 B. Williamson Elem. Treat. Differential Calculus (ed. 2) xiv. §202 If the absolute term be wanting in the equation of a curve, it passes through the origin.
1935 A. H. G. Palmer & K. S. Snell Mechanics vi. 66 Two localised vectors are only equal if they are identical, since they must have the same origin as well as the same magnitude and direction.
1964 A. P. Robertson & W. Robertson Topol. Vector Spaces i. 16 The convex space E is metrisable if and only if it is separated and there is a countable base of neighbourhoods (of the origin).
1984 L. Solymar Lect. Electromagn. Theory (BNC) (rev. ed.) 12 We can just as well imagine that all the charge is concentrated at the origin of the coordinate system.
B. adj.
= original adj. 2a. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adjective] > first or prior to all others
formec888
eldestc897
firstlOE
originalc1350
foremosta1400
furthermost?a1400
primary?a1425
primatea1425
primea1500
arch1574
soon1591
origin1632
utter1634
premier1652
aboriginary1653
furthest1653
fontal1656
principial1699
première1768
protological1936
first-ever1955
1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 217 The origine story it selfe..is written at full by Moses in Numb. 25.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

originv.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: origin n.
Etymology: < origin n. Compare slightly later originate v. N.E.D. (1903) gives the pronunciation as (ǫ·ridʒin) /ˈɒrɪdʒɪn/.
Obsolete.
transitive. = originate v. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate or be a source of [verb (transitive)]
sow971
mothera1425
author1598
origin1640
to be at the bottom of1650
principle1650
originate1653
inchoate1654
originize1657
1640 in Acta Parl. Scotl. (1816) V. 300/1 And makeing no kynd of alteratione but suche as..was origined and deryved from þe actis of the Assemblie.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 26 We must remember this Proverb was origined, whilest England and Wales were at deadly Feude.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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