Definition of origin
(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"
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"