<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>something from which anything arises or is derived; source; fountainhead: to follow a stream to its origin</li><li>rise or derivation from a particular source: the origin of a word</li><li>the first stage of existence; beginning: the origin of Quakerism in America</li><li>ancestry; parentage; extraction: to be of Scottish origin</li><li>Anatomy: the point of derivation</li><li>the more fixed portion of a muscle</li><li>Mathematics: the point in a Cartesian coordinate system where the axes intersect; also called pole</li><li>the point from which rays designating specific angles originate and are measured from in a polar coordinate system with no axes</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>foundation</li><li>root</li></ul><p><strong>Antonyms</strong></p><ul><li>end</li><li>destination</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>descent</li><li>lineage</li><li>birth</li></ul>