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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Origin \Or"i*gin\, n. [F. origine, L. origo, -iginis, fr. oriri
     to rise, become visible; akin to Gr. 'orny`nai to stir up,
     rouse, Skr. [.r], and perh. to E. run.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its
              origin in the ancient chivalry.       --Burke.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain;
        the spring; the cause; the occasion.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. (Anat.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which
        is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to
        insertion.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Origin of co["o]rdinate axes (Math.), the point where the
        axes intersect. See Note under Ordinate.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Commencement; rise; source; spring; fountain;
          derivation; cause; root; foundation.
  
     Usage: Origin, Source. Origin denotes the rise or
            commencement of a thing; source presents itself under
            the image of a fountain flowing forth in a continuous
            stream of influences. The origin of moral evil has
            been much disputed, but no one can doubt that it is
            the source of most of the calamities of our race.
            [1913 Webster]
  
                  I think he would have set out just as he did,
                  with the origin of ideas -- the proper starting
                  point of a grammarian, who is to treat of their
                  signs.                            --Tooke.
            [1913 Webster]
  
                  Famous Greece,
                  That source of art and cultivated thought
                  Which they to Rome, and Romans hither, brought.
                                                    --Waller.
            [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Origin \Or"i*gin\, n. [F. origine, L. origo, -iginis, fr. oriri
     to rise, become visible; akin to Gr. 'orny`nai to stir up,
     rouse, Skr. [.r], and perh. to E. run.]
     1. The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
  
              This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its
              origin in the ancient chivalry.       --Burke.
  
     2. That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain;
        the spring; the cause; the occasion.
  
     3. (Anat.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which
        is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to
        insertion.
  
     Origin of co["o]rdinate axes (Math.), the point where the
        axes intersect. See Note under Ordinate.
  
     Syn: Commencement; rise; source; spring; fountain;
          derivation; cause; root; foundation.
  
     Usage: Origin, Source. Origin denotes the rise or
            commencement of a thing; source presents itself under
            the image of a fountain flowing forth in a continuous
            stream of influences. The origin of moral evil has
            been much disputed, but no one can doubt that it is
            the source of most of the calamities of our race.
  
                  I think he would have set out just as he did,
                  with the origin of ideas -- the proper starting
                  point of a grammarian, who is to treat of their
                  signs.                            --Tooke.
  
                  Famous Greece, That source of art and cultivated
                  thought Which they to Rome, and Romans hither,
                  brought.                          --Waller.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  origin
       n 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" [syn: beginning, root, rootage, source]
       2: properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from
          good origins" [syn: descent, extraction]
       3: an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of
          subsequent events [syn: origination, inception]
       4: the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the
          values of the coordinates are all zero
       5: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has
          been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent,
           descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree,
           ancestry, parentage, stemma, stock]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  origin
     Αγγλικά n.
     προέλευση, αρχή

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  origin
     n.
     1 The beginning of something.
     2 The source of a river, information, goods, etc.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  origin
     n.
     1 The beginning of something.
     2 The source of a river, information, goods, etc.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  origin
     n.
     1 The beginning of something.
     2 The source of a river, information, goods, etc.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  origin
     n.
     1 The beginning of something.
     2 The source of a river, information, goods, etc.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  origin
     Englanti n.
     1 alkuperä, alkupiste, lähde
     2 origo

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  origin
     n.
     (tagg ålderdomligt text=1748–1914) härkomst, ursprung

From Swedish Wiktionary: Swedish language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-sv-2023-07-27 ]


  origin
     n.
     (tagg ålderdomligt text=1748–1914) härkomst, ursprung

From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-afr ]


  origin /ˈɒɹɪdʒˌɪn/
  herkoms, oorsprong

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Origin /ˈɒɹɪdʒˌɪn/
  الأصل

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  origin //ˈɑɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn// //ˈɒɹ.ə.d͡ʒən// //ˈɒɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn// //ˈɔɹ.d͡ʒɪn// //ˈɔɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn// 
  1. прои́зход
  ancestry
  2. нача́ло, прои́зход
  beginning of something
  3. нача́ло
  point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect
  4. и́звор, и́зточник
  source of a river, information, goods, etc.

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  origin /ˈɒɹɪdʒˌɪn/ 
  počátek

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  origin /ˈɒɹɪdʒˌɪn/ 
  vznik

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  origin /ˈɒɹɪdʒˌɪn/
  původ

From Eurfa Saesneg, English-Welsh Eurfa/Freedict dictionary ver. 0.2.3 : [ freedict:eng-cym ]


  origin /ˈɒɹɪdʒˌɪn/ 
  tardd