Beginning, starting, or coming from a particular place, time, or source; creating or inventing something new.
From Latin 'originari' (to originate), derived from 'origo' (origin, beginning), which may be related to 'oriri' (to rise). The word entered English through Old French in the 1400s.
The Latin root 'origo' literally means 'rising up'—so when something originates, it's like it's rising up or emerging from something. That's why we say ideas 'spring forth' or 'arise'—our metaphors for origin are all about things coming up from below.
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