origin (
http://definr.com/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,
genesis,
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,
stock]