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