origin

Meaning

Noun

• The beginning of something.
• The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
• The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
• The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
• An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
• Ancestry.

Related

Opposite words

• end
• destination
• insertion

Origin

• From Middle English origine, origyne, from Old French origine, orine, ourine, from Latin origo, from orior; see orient. origo.