'origin' definitions:

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, origin, root, rootage, source]

Properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins" [syn: origin, descent, extraction]

An event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events [syn: origin, origination, inception]

The point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero

The source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived; "the rumor had its origin in idle gossip"; "vegetable origins"; "mineral origin"; "origin in sensation"

The descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock]