Noun
1. 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"2. properties attributable to your ancestry;
"he comes from good origins"3. an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
4. the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
5. the descendants of one individual;
"his entire lineage has been warriors"