origin

noun

/ˈɒɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/UK/ˈoɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/CA/ˈɑɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English origine, origyne, from Old French origine, orine, ourine, from Latin orīgō (“beginning, source, birth, origin”), from orior (“to rise”); see orient. Doublet of origo.

derived from orīgō — “beginning, source, birth, origin”
derived from origine
inherited from origine

Definitions

1
The beginning of something.
- place of origin
- trace the origin of something
- unknown origin
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
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1. The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action…
  The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
2. An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
3. Ancestry.
4. the State of Origin series (an annual best-of-three rugby league series between New South…
  the State of Origin series (an annual best-of-three rugby league series between New South Wales and Queensland, nicknamed the "Blues" and the "Maroons", respectively)

The neighborhood

antonymendantonym(s) of “beginning”
antonymdestinationantonym(s) of “source”
antonyminsertionantonym(s) of “anatomy”
neighbororient
neighborprovenance

Derived

cross-origin, interorigin, originable, original, originate, origination, originator, originless, origin myth, origin of coordinates, origin story, preorigin, same-origin policy, time of origin

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at origin. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at origin. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at origin

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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