English Explanatory Dictionary

origin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The beginning of something.
  2. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
  3. The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
  4. The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
  5. An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
  6. Ancestry.
name
  1. the State of Origin series (an annual best-of-three rugby league series between New South Wales and Queensland, nicknamed the "Blues" and the "Maroons", respectively)

Pronunciation

/ˈɒɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/ /ˈɒɹ.ə.d͡ʒən/ /ˈoɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/ /ˈoɹ.ə.d͡ʒɪn/ [ˈoɹ.d͡ʒɪn] en-us-origin.ogg /ˈɑɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/ /ˈɔɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/ [ˈɔ̟ɹ.ə.d͡ʒən] /ˈɔrɪdʒɪn/ /ɵrɪˈdʒɪn/

Word forms

origin origins

Etymology

From Middle English origine, origyne, from Old French origine, orine, ourine, from Latin orīgō (“beginning, source, birth, origin”), from orior (“to rise”); see orient. Doublet of origo.

Synonyms

beginning source zero vector

Antonyms

end destination insertion

Related words

orient provenance

Derived words

cross-origin interorigin originable original originate origination originator originless origin myth origin of coordinates origin story preorigin same-origin policy time of origin
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