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Words related to origin

Related / Similar Words: descent, extraction, origination, inception, lineage, line, line of descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, parentage, stemma, stock, beginning, root, rootage, source

Definition:

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

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

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

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

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";

Hyponyms: full blood, germination, cause, preliminary, overture, prelude, emanation, rise, procession, family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry, breed, side, derivation, spring, fountainhead, headspring, head, headwaters, wellhead, wellspring, jumping-off place, point of departure, birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, home, point source, trail head, trailhead

Derivational Morphology: originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow, initiate, start, rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent, derive, come, descend, root

Anagrams: O ring, gringo, Goring

Language Translations:
Chinese: 起源		Dutch: oorsprong
Finnish: lähteet		French: origine
German: Ursprung		Greek: προέλευση
Hungarian: eredet		Ido: origino
Italian: origine		Japanese: 起源
Korean: 원천		Portuguese: origem
Russian: происхождение		Serbian: istok
Spanish: origen		Swedish: ursprung

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