origin

noun
1

The beginning of something.

"place of origin"

2

The source of a river, information, goods, etc.

3

The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.

4

The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.

5

An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.

6

Ancestry.

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