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")
origin, descent, extraction -- (properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins")
origin, origination, inception -- (an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events)
origin -- (the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero)
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")
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