origin in WordNet English dictionary

1. the descendants of one individual
   "his entire lineage has been warriors"
   lineage  line  line of descent  descent  bloodline  blood line  blood  pedigree  ancestry  origin  parentage  stemma  stock 
   
2. 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"
   beginning  origin  root  rootage  source 
   
3. properties attributable to your ancestry
   "he comes from good origins"
   origin  descent  extraction 
   
4. an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
   origin  origination  inception 
   
5. the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
   origin 
   
6. the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived
   "the rumor had its origin in idle gossip"; "vegetable origins"; "mineral origin"; "origin in sensation"
   origin