the source of somethings existence or from which it derives or is derived; "the rumor had its origin in idle gossip"; "vegetable origins"; "mineral origin"; "origin in sensation"
properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins" (同)descent, extraction
an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events (同)origination, inception
the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero