origin
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origin/ˈɒrɪʤɪn/
▶noun
- 1 (also origins) the point where something begins or arises.
■ a person's social background or ancestry.
- 2 Anatomy the more fixed end or attachment of a muscle.
- 3 Mathematics a fixed point from which coordinates are measured.
– origin C16: from Fr. origine, from L. origo, origin-, from oriri ‘to rise’.
'origin' also found in these Oxford entries:
a
- a-
- a-
- a-
- -a
- aa
- aardvark
- aardwolf
- Aaron's beard
- Aaron's rod
- Ab
- ab-
- abaca
- abacus
- abaft
- abalone
- abandon
- abase
- abash
- abate
- abatis
- abattoir
- abaya
- Abba
- abbacy
- Abbasid
- abbatial
- abbé
- abbess
- abbey
- abbot
- abbreviate
- abdabs
- abdicate
- abdomen
- abducens nerves
- abduct
- abeam
- abelia
- abelian
- Aberdonian
- aberration
- abet
- abeyance
- abhor
- abide
- ability
- -ability
- ab initio
- abiogenesis
