definition of
origin

[1] #1 origin n. [beginning, root, rootage, source] 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". wn

[2] #2 origin n. [descent, extraction] properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins". wn

[3] #3 origin n. [origination, inception] an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events. wn

[4] #4 origin n. the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero. wn

[5] #5 origin n. 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". wn