Synonyms for origin

Noun

1. beginning, origin, root, rootage, source, point

usage: 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"

2. origin, descent, extraction, ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation

usage: properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"

3. origin, origination, inception, beginning

usage: an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

4. origin, intersection

usage: the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero

5. lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock, genealogy, family tree

usage: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"