[noun] 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" Synonyms: beginning, root, rootage, source
[noun] properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins" Synonyms: descent, extraction
[noun] an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events Synonyms: ation, inception
[noun] the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero