origin

n 1: 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}, {root}, {source}]

2: properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from

good origins" [syn: {descent}, {extraction}]

3: an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of

subsequent events [syn: {origination}, {genesis}, {inception}]

4: the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the

values of the coordinates are all zero

5: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has

been warriors" [syn: {lineage}, {line}, {line of descent},

{descent}, {bloodline}, {blood line}, {blood}, {pedigree},

{ancestry}, {parentage}, {stock}]