1. (

• beginning ,
• origin ,
• 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" ;

2. (

• origin ,
• descent ,
• extraction

) properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins" ;

3. (

• origin ,
• origination ,
• inception

) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events ;

4. (

• origin

) the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero ;

5. (

• origin

) 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" ;

6. (

• lineage ,
• line ,
• line_of_descent ,
• descent ,
• bloodline ,
• blood_line ,
• blood ,
• pedigree ,
• ancestry ,
• origin ,
• parentage ,
• stemma ,
• stock ,

) the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" ;