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originate

UK/əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪneɪt/US/əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪneɪt/
verbC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,022 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: originated, originating, originates

To originate is to have your first beginning in a certain place or time. Originate in China, the fire originated here, originated as a joke.

It takes in or from for the source and is the neutral word where came from is the plain one. It also means to create: he originated the role. In finance, to originate a loan is to make it, which is a technical use. Note origin; and that the Latin means to rise.

Definitions of originate

  1. 1verboriginateTo have your first beginning in a certain place or time.C1

    “The custom originated in Germany and slowly spread across Europe.”

originate is a beginning.

Where it comes from

Medieval Latin originare comes from origo, a beginning, from oriri, to rise. Orient and origin come from the same rising.

  1. Medieval Latin

    orīginātus

  2. English, today

    originate

Built from

  • orīginō · Medieval Latin — to begin, give rise to

From Medieval Latin orīginātus, perfect passive participle of orīginō (“to begin, give rise to”) (see -ate for more), from orīgō + -ō. Compare Italian originare and Spanish originar.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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originate in the wild

  • Mauritius has 2 genres of music that originate from the Island.

    Music of Mauritius

  • With one exception, the streams and rivers of Florida all originate on the Coastal plain.

    List of rivers of Florida

  • Most streams and rivers in Florida start from swamps, while some originate from springs or lakes.

    List of rivers of Florida

  • Most of the rivers in India originate from the four major watersheds in India.

    List of rivers of India

  • The Narmada and Tapti rivers originate from the Vindhya and Satpura ranges in Central India.

    List of rivers of India

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.