| '''Origin''' derived from classical [[Latin]] - coming into [[being]], beginning, that from which something is derived, source; to rise (see [[Orient]] n. Compare Middle French, French origine, noun (1450-1500 in anatomy, 1470 in sense ‘birth of an [[individual]] or a family’, 1679 in [[mathematics]]) and adjective (1520). Compare Italian origine (1304-8), Spanish origen (a1400).With the trisyllabic French forms cited above compare earlier disyllabic forms Old French, Middle French orine (1138), Anglo-Norman orine, origne.] | | '''Origin''' derived from classical [[Latin]] - coming into [[being]], beginning, that from which something is derived, source; to rise (see [[Orient]] n. Compare Middle French, French origine, noun (1450-1500 in anatomy, 1470 in sense ‘birth of an [[individual]] or a family’, 1679 in [[mathematics]]) and adjective (1520). Compare Italian origine (1304-8), Spanish origen (a1400).With the trisyllabic French forms cited above compare earlier disyllabic forms Old French, Middle French orine (1138), Anglo-Norman orine, origne.] |
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| *A.1. noun a. The fact of being born from a particular ancestor or [[race]]; parentage, ancestry, extraction, pedigree. Also in pl. | | *A.1. noun a. The fact of being born from a particular ancestor or [[race]]; parentage, ancestry, extraction, pedigree. Also in pl. |