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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024or•i•gin /ˈɔrɪdʒɪn, ˈɑr-/USA pronunciation n. - [countable* usually: singular] a source from which anything arises or comes.
- the first years or stage of existence:[countable* often: plural]a woman of mysterious origins.
- descent:[uncountable]was clearly of Scandinavian origin.
See -ori-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024or•i•gin (ôr′i jin, or′-),USA pronunciation n. - something from which anything arises or is derived;
source; fountainhead:to follow a stream to its origin. - rise or derivation from a particular source:the origin of a word.
- the first stage of existence;
beginning:the origin of Quakerism in America. - ancestry;
parentage; extraction:to be of Scottish origin. - Anatomy
- the point of derivation.
- the more fixed portion of a muscle.
- Mathematics
- the point in a Cartesian coordinate system where the axes intersect.
- Also called pole. the point from which rays designating specific angles originate in a polar coordinate system with no axes.
- Latin orīgin- (stem of orīgō) beginning, source, lineage, derivative of orīrī to rise; compare orient
- Middle English 1350–1400
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged root, foundation.
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged birth, lineage, descent.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged destination, end.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: origin /ˈɒrɪdʒɪn/ n - a primary source; derivation
- the beginning of something; first stage or part
- (often plural) ancestry or parentage; birth; extraction
- the end of a muscle, opposite its point of insertion
- the beginning of a nerve or blood vessel or the site where it first starts to branch out
- the point of intersection of coordinate axes or planes
- the point whose coordinates are all zero
- the country from which a commodity or product originates: shipment from origin
Etymology: 16th Century: from French origine, from Latin orīgō beginning, birth, from orīrī to rise, spring from |