n. 25B6; noun
the origins of life : BEGINNING, start, commencement, origination, genesis, birth, dawning, dawn, emergence, creation, birthplace, cradle; source, basis, cause, root(s); formal radix.
the Latin origin of the word : SOURCE, derivation, root(s), provenance, etymology; N. Amer. provenience.
his Scottish origins : DESCENT, ancestry, parentage, pedigree, lineage, line (of descent), heritage, birth, extraction, family, stock, blood, bloodline.