ORIGINとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 origine, origyne, from Old French origine, orine, ourine, from Latin orīgō (“beginning, source, birth, origin”), from orior (“to rise”); see orient. Doublet of origo.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/, /ˈɒɹ.ə.d͡ʒən/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɔɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/, /ˈɔɹ.d͡ʒɪn/
• (New York City, Philadelphia) IPA: /ˈɑɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈɔrɪdʒɪn/, /ɵrɪˈdʒɪn/

名詞

origin (plural origins)

1. The beginning of something.

   place of origin

   trace the origin of something

   unknown origin

   The custom has its origin in ancient Greece.

   Scientists are studying the origin of the universe.

2. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.

   Synonym: source

   • 1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     It is clear that the origin of the truth would be an admirable criterion of this sort, if only the various origins could be discriminated from one another from this point of view, and the history of dogmatic opinion shows that origin has always been a favorite test. Origin in immediate intuition; origin in pontifical authority; origin in supernatural revelation, as by vision, hearing, or unaccountable impression; origin in direct possession by a higher spirit, expressing itself in prophecy and warning; origin in automatic utterance generally,—these origins have been stock warrants for the truth of one opinion after another which we find represented in religious history.

   • 2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:

     Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.

3. (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.

   Synonym: zero vector

4. (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
5. (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
6. (in the plural) Ancestry.

同意語

• (beginning): See Thesaurus:beginning

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “beginning”): end
• (antonym(s) of “source”): destination
• (antonym(s) of “anatomy”): insertion

派生語

関連する語

• orient

参考

• provenance

Further reading

• “origin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “origin”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• nigori