Synonyms:
beginning, origin, root, rootage, source
Meaning: 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"
Synonyms:
origin, descent, extraction
Meaning: properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
Synonyms:
origin, origination, inception
Meaning: an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
Synonyms:
origin
Meaning: the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
Usage examples
The Origin of Property.
ORIGIN OF MINERAL VEINS.
Nature and origin of the idea of Duration.
Basalt is a brownish rock of igneous origin.
Its exact origin, however, is not so certain.
It is of undoubted native origin and venerable antiquity.
The first is that of the genesis or origin of the consciousness.
I will sketch out the origin of our plays more explicitly if I can.
This, as will be related in its place, caused the origin of Venice.
For by this is signified that the Church takes her origin from Christ.