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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