ORIGINATE

[verb] [I]If something originates in a particular place or at a particular time, it comes from there or begins there.The news story originated in Paris.Although the technology originated in the UK, it has been developed on a large scale in the US.School uniform is thought to have originated in the 1840s and 50s.The game is thought to have originated among the native peoples of Alaska.If you originate something, you start it or cause it to happen.Who originated the saying 'Small is beautiful'?